About This Artwork

John Bradley Storrs
American, 1885-1956

Ceres, 1928

Copper-alloy plated with nickel, then chrome
67.3 x 16.2 x 12.4 cm (26 ½ x 6 3/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
Inscribed on back of base: STORRS/cast by/American Art Bronze Foundry/Chicago.
Gift of John N. Stern, 1981.538

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Arts Club of Chicago, Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members, April 23-May 13, 1933.

Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934.

Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, John Storrs and John Flannagan: Sculpture and Works on Paper, November 7-December 28, 1980.

Whitney Museum of American Art, John Storrs, December 11, 1986-March 22, 1987; traveled to Amon Carter Museum, May 2-July 5, 1987; Louisville, Spped Art Museum, August 28-November 1, 1987.

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Architecture and Design, 1923-1993: Reconfiguration of an American Metropolis, June 12-August 29, 1993.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Human Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity, February 23-May 14, 1995; traveled to Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, June 22-September 10, 1995; Wichita Art Museum, October 19, 1995-January 7, 1996; New York, National Academy of Design, February 15-May 5, 1995.

Musee d'Aert Americain Giverny, A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918-1939, August 31-November 30, 2003; traveled to Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, April 17-June 27, 2004, Chicago venue only.

Publication History

"The Trader" (Chicago Board of Trade, 1997).

William Falloon, "Market Maker: A Sesquicentennial Look at the Chicago Board of Trade (1998), p. 2, cover (ill.).

Judith A. Barter, “Designing for Democracy: Modernism and Its Utopias,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), pp. 6 (ill.), 7-17, fig. 5.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 29.

Ownership History

From the artist to the Chicago Board of Trade, received by J.W. Harris, member of construction company. Frederick Durland. Robert Schoelkopf Gallery New York; sold to John N. Stern, Chicago, December 1979; given to the Art Institute, December 1981.