John Storrs' extensive correspondence spans over fifty years and documents his personal and professional life. There are extensive letters to his wife Marguerite Storrs, including love letters written before they were married and letters written to her during his visits to the United States. Letters written by Marguerite to John are located series 2.2. John Storrs' love letters to other women, including Yolande de Manziarly, are found within his general correspondence.
General correspondence primarily consists of Storrs' correspondence with friends, colleagues, art critics and historians, patrons, art organizations, and galleries. Where they exist, Storrs' drafts of outgoing letters are interfiled with letters he received in a chronological arrangement. Storrs was friends with many artists, architects, performers, and writers in both the US and Europe. Among the artists he corresponded with are Berenice Abbott, Hendrick Andersen, George Biddle, Jerome Blum, Arthur Bock, Louis Bouche, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Walter Cole, Arthur Davies, Jessica Dismorr, Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, Leo Friedlander, Marsden Hartley, Jean Helion, Gertrude Lambert, Fernand Leger, Jacques Lipchitz, Man Ray, Richard Recchia, Edwin Scott, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Maurice Sterne, Alfred Stieglitz, Leopold Survage, Jacques Villon, and William and Marguerite Zorach. Other notable correspondents include architects Edward Bennett, Paul Phillippe Cret, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Alfonso Iannelli; writers and publishers Sherwood Anderson, Louise Bryant, William Bullitt, Max Eastman, Jane Heap, Paul Scott Mowrer, and Gertrude Stein; art critics Phyllis Ackerman, Frank Crowninshield, and Maurice Raynal; art patrons Arthur Aldis, Mildred Bliss, and Charles Worcester; friend and curator Alice Roullier; and dancer Maud Allan. A portion of the general correspondence is in French.
A small amount of correspondence with galleries, museums, and curators concerns exhibitions and sales of Storrs' artwork. Also found is correspondence concerning his participation in art organizations. Researchers should note a portion of Storrs' business correspondence, especially regarding his major sculpture commissions and his dealings with Downtown Gallery, are found in Series 3: Personal Business Records.
See Appendix for a list of correspondents from Series 2.1.
Appendix: Correspondents from Series 2.1:
Abbott, Berenice, 1921, 1922, undated
Ackerman, Phyllis, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, undated
Adams, Cyrus H., 1944
Adler, Alfred, 1926
Adler, David, 1939, 1945
Adrien, Rouet, 1924
Alby, Leony, undated
Aldis, Arthur T., 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, undated
Aldis, Graham, 1934
Allan, Maud, 1907, 1913, 1925, 1928, undated
American Art Association, 1926, undated
American Art Bronze Foundry, 1935, 1936
American Designers Gallery, Inc., 1928
American Express Company, 1907, 1933
American Hospital of Paris, 1913
American Library in Paris, 1945, 1946, 1947
American Red Cross, 1918
American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen, 1928, 1929
American University Union in Europe, 1923
American Women's Club of Paris, inc., 1932, undated
Andersen, Mrs. A. O., 1928
Andersen, Hendrick, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1918
Anderson, Margaret, 1924
Anderson, Sherwood, 1917, 1925, undated
Antheil, George, 1924, 1926, 1927
A.O. Smith Coporation, 1934
Apex Smelting Co., 1930
Arden, Elizabeth, 1935, 1936, undated
Arens, Egmont, 1919, 1920, 1921
Arnhem, Edward, 1925
Art Institute of Chicago, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1939, 1940, 1945
Artists and Writers Dinner Club, 1934
Arts Club of Chicago, 1920, 1922, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1937
Artwork, 1924
Ateliers D'Art du Clos De Joye, 1955
B., Simone, 1924, 1926, 1928, undated
Babcock, Ella, 1912, undated
Babcock, James L., 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, undated
Bailey, C. Foster, 1928
Ballard, George S., 1935
Barbarin, Georges, 1942
Barbier, H., 1925
Barbusse, Leevri, 1919
Barrett, Ida C., 1939
Bartholomew, Marshall, 1937
Bartlett, Paul W., 1914
Beach, John & Lucy, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1945, undated
Benard, Maddy, undated
Benington, Walter, 1918
Benjamin, Elizabeth, undated
Bennett, Edward H., 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1951
Berger, Paul, 1920
Berlin Photographic Company, 1915
Biddle, George, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1946, undated
Biddle, Katherine Garrison, 1928
Jane Biddle, 1925, 1926
Birdsall, Lucy Storrs, 1950, undated
Birnbaum, Martin, 1916
Blanquet-Pernot, Mrs., 1928
Bliss, Mildred, 1929, 1948, undated
Blinstrub, Ben, 1937, 1945
Blum, Frank, 1929
Blum, Jerome, 1907, undated
Bock, Arthur, 1906
Bon, Jacques, 1923
Booz, Helen, 1946, 1947, undated
Bonney, M. Therese, 1926
Bosley, Frederick A., 1907, 1909, undated
Bouche, G. Louis (Folsom Galleries), 1920, 1921, undated
Boulenger, Jacques, 1942
Boyce, Sydney, 1911
Boyd, Jim, 1906
Bragdon, Marston S., 1914
Brandt, Edgar, 1926
Braque, G., 1939, 1955
Breck, George W., 1907
Bretano's, 1913
Brewster, Kate Lancaster, 1929, undated
Brewster, Walter, 1928
Brooklyn Museums, 1930, 1934
Brorby, Melvin, 1924
Brown, A. Spenser, 1907, 1912, 1913, 1914, undated
Brown, Slater, 1921
Brummer, Joseph, 1928, 1929, 1930
Bryant, Louise, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, undated
Bucher, Jeanne, 1937, undated
Bulliet, C. J., 1949
Bullitt, Orville H., undated
Bullitt, William C., 1937, 1939, 1940, undated
Butcher, Fanny, 1931
Byrne, Barry, 1928, 1930
Caffery, Jefferson, 1944, 1945
Cahiers de L'Etoile, 1929
Calder, Alexander (Illustrated Letter), 1932, 1935
California Museum of Art, Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1923, 1924, 1933
Calton, Constance, 1948
Campbell, Elisa, undated
Carnegie Institute, 1938
Caro-Delvaille, Aline, 1923
Carpenter, Genevieve, 1928, 1929
Carpenter, Rue, 1927
Cartarin, A., 1924
Carter, Helen B., 1921, 1922
Cecile, Paul, 1929
Centre Immobilier et Forestier, 1923
Chambers, Christine, undated
Chandler, George M., 1921
Chapman, C., 1912, undated
Charles Fiore Nurseries, 1930
Charpentier, Jean, 1926
Chase Bank, 1946
Cheney, Sheldon (Theatre Arts Magazine), 1921
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, 1933, 1934, 1935
Chicago Daily News, 1918
Chicago Sculptors Association, 1935, 1936
Chicago Society of Etchers, 1916, 1918
Child, Paul Cushing & Julia, 1929, 1950
Childs, Newell, 1940, 1945, undated
Christy, Bill, 1946
Chrysler, Walter P., 1939
Civil Affairs Office, Orleans, France, 1944
Clarke, Dora, undated
Cliff Dwellers, 1928
Cline, Jared, 1927, 1928
Clow, Isabelle, 1927, 1928
Cohalan, Daniel, 1930
Colbert, F. Overton, 1933
Cole, Timothy, 1917
Cole, Walter, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1919, undated
Coleville, Ruth, 1912
College of St. Scholastica, 1939
Combes Favard, Berthe des, 1921, undated
Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, 1916, 1923, 1927
Commission de la Renaissance d'Orleans, 1945
Consulate-General of the United States of America, 1914
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1935
Coules, Edith V., 1926, undated
Cowles, Genevieve, 1927
Crane, Jacob, 1933
Creative Art, 1928
Cret, Paul Philippe & Marguerite, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1945, undated
Cross, Louise, 1932
Crowninshield, Frank, 1929
Cummings, Nathan, 1955, 1956
Cummings, Walter, undated
Cunningham, John, 1933, 1938, 1955
Cuttoli, Marie, undated
Dallies, Jeanne, 1917
Dashiell, Juliet A., 1905, 1906, 1907
Davies, Arthur, 1923
Davis, Garry, 1949
Dell, Floyd (The Liberator), undated
Department du Loiret, Republique Francaise, 1944
Deregnancourt, Alphonse, 1914, 1915, 1918
Devambez, 1918, 1919
Deville-Chabrol, Emma, undated
Diaz, Luis, 1936
Diaz de Recchia, Ana, 1911, 1913
Dismorr, Jessica, 1918
Doubleday Page & Company, 1920
Dougherty, Paul, 1925
Dreier, Ethel E., 1923, 1926
Dreier, Katherine (Societe Anonyme Inc.), 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1928, undated
Drury, Holden, 1953
Dubowsky, Henry, 1945
Duchamp, Marcel, 1927, undated
Dudensing Galleries, Inc., 1929
Duval, Jack H., 1907, 1918, undated
Duval, L. & L. Janier, 1916
Eastman, Max (The Liberator), 1918, 1919
Eckridge, Bob, undated
Eddy, Arthur J., 1916,undated
Editions Savoir Vivre, 1919
Eggimann, L. H., 1918
Elliott, Lucretia M., 1906
Embassy of the United States of America, Paris, 1940, 1945, 1946, 1947
Emmett, Beulah, 1937, undated
Enterprises Morlon & Fils, 1923
Espy, John, 1915
Ewing, Mary H., 1909
Ewing, Mary James, 1930
Ewing, W. A., 1916
Eyskens, A. Mary, 1909
Eyskens, Felix, 1912
Fagotat, G., 1922
Fairmount Park Art Association, 1933, 1948
Farre, William, 1922, 1923, 1925
Faucauld, Isabelle de Comtess, undated
Fauche, E., 1927
Fenton, P., 1943
Fio Rito, Madelyn, 1954, 1955
Fournier, F., 1932
Franks, Sara, 1909
Freelander, Ronald, 1945, 1946
Freneuse, Marie Louise Landry de, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948
Freres, Brunschwig, 1925, 1927, 1928
Friedlander, Leo, 1936
Fry, Edith M., 1917, 1918
Fry, William E., 1909, 1921, 1923, undated
Fuller, R. Buckminster, 1929, 1930, 1932, undated
Galerie Briant-Robert, 1924
Galerie des feuillets d'art, 1919, 1920, undated
Galerie "L'Effort Moderne" (Leonce Rosenberg), 1919, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1931
Galerie Zak, 1925, 1934
General Alloys Company, 1935
Geret, Lucien, 1946, 1951
Germain, Mr. & Mrs., 1925
Gibson, Sidney, undated
Golejewski, General, 1945, 1946
Goodale, Hazel, 1906
Grafly, Charles & Martha, 1911
Graphic Institute of Lithography, 1937
Greeley, Martha, undated
Green, Gretchen, 1954
Gros, Gabriel, 1919
Grossman, Edward, undated
Gutheim, Frederick, 1946
H., Edna R., 1921, 1922
H. W. Croxton & Co., 1933
Hadley, Louise, 1937, 1940, undated
Haines, Grace (Mrs. L. Emerson Matter), 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909
Hammond, Madelyn, 1933
Hannen, Jos. H., 1909
Harrington, James (Jimmie), 1900, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1921, 1922, 1937
Hartley, Marsden, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, undated
Harvey, Fred, 1918
Heap, Jane, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, undated
Hecht, Zoltan, 1928
Heitkamp, Irving & Eleanor M., 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, undated
Helion, Jean, 1937, 1938
Heyman, Katherine, undated
Hoeckner, Carl, 1921
Holabird, John A. (Holabird & Root), 1930
Holley, Bertha, 1913, undated
Holmes, Frederick, 1905, undated
Hoskins, W., 1930
Houfe, Eric, 1954
Houston, William, undated
Hoyt, Henry M. & Anne, 1911, 1912, 1918, 1920, 1921, undated
Hubert, M. de la Montaigne, 1933, 1935, 1936, undated
Hubert, Loyou, 1926
Huddleston, Sisley, 1924, 1927, 1929, 1930, undated
Hugon, Paul D., 1938
Hunt, Dorothy, undated
Iannelli, Alfonso, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1929
Industrial Fireproofing Corp., 1935
Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., 1934
Jaines, Louise, 1921
James, R. Howard, 1911, 1912, 1929, undated
Jaques, Bertha, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921
Jenkins, Julia, 1905, undated
John H. Vanderpoel Art Association, 1939
Joy, Bill, 1922, 1923, undated
Junior League of Chicago, 1932, 1935
Kahn, Albert, 1934
Kayser, Jos., 1947
Kennedy, Herbert H., 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925
Kramer, Frank, 1905
Kunst Art Foundries, 1931
Lacomme, Risette, 1919, 1920, 1924, 1926, undated
Lafargue, Henry, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1931
Laing, Alice S., 1921
Lambert, Gertrude, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1929, undated
Laurens, E., 1911
La Verite, 1919
Lavolley, I.?, 1926, 1929, undated
Layrault?, 1923, 1924, 1925
Lazari, Paul, 1946
Le Bosse, R., 1938
Lecomte, Mr., 1928
Lecomte du Nouy, Mrs., 1948
Lecornu, G., 1927
Lee, G. Ambrose, 1905
Lee, Henry C., 1927
Lee, Robert M., 1931
Leger, Fernand, 1936, undated
Leight, Mrs. Edward, 1921, undated
Les Muses Francaises, 1920, 1921, 1922
Lewis, Elizabeth, 1935
Lewis, Helen, 1946, 1947, undated
Lipchitz, Jacques & Berthe, undated
Long, Mason, 1953
Loring?, Gustave, 1919
Loyson, 1913
Luntz, Charles, 1946
Lyons, Philip, 1929, 1932, undated
MacBurney, T. N., 1930
Magnin, A. de, 1918
Malye, T., 1927
Mannheimer, Frank, undated
Manziarly, Yolande de, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929
Martre, Charles, 1927
Masclary, Bernard de, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1942, 1955, undated
Masclary, P. de, 1942
Marmet, L. J., 1906
Mazau, F., 1923
McClelland, Nancy, 1937
McCormick, Elsie Rockefeller, 1950
McCormick, Robert H., 1949
McIntyre, Margaret, 1924, 1926
McManus, Blanche, 1918
Medallic Art Company, 1931
Meeker, Arthur, 1930
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916
Meunier, Maurice, 1926, 1927
Miller, Edgar, undated
Miller, John O'Fallon & Caroline, 1923, 1926, undated
Miller, Joseph Gilman, 1929
Milman, Ralph & Helen, 1937, 1938, 1955
Monnette, Orra Eugene, 1921
Montellier, J., 1930
Moody, Harriet, 1925
Moore, Grace, 1936
Morgan, Charles, 1933
Morley, R., 1908, 1918
Morse, Howard K., 1927
Morris Book Shop, 1921
Mowrer, Edgar, 1914, undated
Mowrer, Paul Scott & Winifred, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1922, undated
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1923
Museum of Modern Art, 1930, 1933, 1934
"Nadja", 1926
Nagel, Elizabeth, undated
Nashville Art Club, 1909
National Sculpture Society, 1928
National Soap Sculpture Committee, 1931
Navez, P., 1914
Needham, Louis & Brorby, Inc., 1930, 1935, 1936, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949, undated
Nelson, Paul, undated
Neological Foundation, 1940, 1945
The Neoterics, 1935
Neue Gallerie, 1925
Neumann, A., 1940, 1945
Newark Museum, 1935
New Masses, 1925
The New Orient, 1930
Noel, Georges, 1945
Norton, John, 1929, undated
Oakley, Horace, 1921
Office of War Information, 1945
Olds, Abbie Storrs, 1950
O'Toole, James St. L, 1935, 1936, undated
Paas, Emily Anita, 1928
Packard, Mary Storrs, 1921
Palmer, Pauline, undated
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1913, 1916
Paris-Midi, 1925, undated
Paris Post, 1946
Parker, Eleanor Wayne, 1912, 1913
Parker, Kineton, 1922, 1930
Partridge, Charlotte Russell, undated
Pascal, Pietro, 1946
Pasquier, Gustave, 1924
Passani, F., 1930
Pearson, Ralph M., 1928, 1929
Peignin, Marius, 1925
Pelzer, Mildred W., 1936
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1910, 1911, 1933
Perry, Ruth T., 1907
Phillips, S. G., (illustrated) 1911, 1914
Pichon, Leon, 1920
Pierron, M., 1920
Playboy, 1919
Polasek, Albin, 1926
Ponce, J., 1927
Post, Mary, 1906, 1907, undated
Potin, O., 1953
Provincetown Print Gallery, 1921
Putnam, Samuel, undated
Quattrocchi, Edmondo, 1929
Ray, Man, undated
Raynal, Maurice, 1928, 1929, undated
Reboul, Jacques, 1907
Recchia, Richard H., 1912, 1913, 1920, undated
Reed, John, 1917
Rendu, A., undated
Republique Francaise, Mairie D'Orleans, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948
Rerolle, Gervaise, undated
Richard, E., 1932
Richard, Paul, 1923, 1927, 1928
Ritman, Louis, 1909
Roberts, Webb, 1936, 1938
Roche, Henri Pierre, 1924, 1927
Rockwell, 1920
Roger, Maurice, 1927
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1916
Root, Ellen, undated
Roseman, T., 1922
Rosenberg, Paul, 1939
Rotil, J., 1924
Roullier, Alice, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, undated
Rowdon, J. T., 1905
Royer, Jean, 1945
Ruhlmann & Laurent, 1919, 1920
Russell, Ann, 1904, 1906
Safalgette, L., 1919, 1920, undated
Salmon, Andre, 1921, 1923, undated
Salon du Franc, 1926
Salons of America, 1923, 1924
Saltino, Andy, 1925
Schoenfeld, Flora, undated
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1909
Schulberg, Stuart and Barbara, undated
Schutze, M., 1934, undated
Schwartz, Andrew T., 1910
Scott, Edwin & Josephine, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1914, undated
Segur, Adrienne, 1927
Senior, John L., 1935, 1936, undated
Seymour, Ruth, 1922
Shanlow?, Alexandra, 1914
Sheeler, Charles, 1923
Shenker, Harry, 1919
Slaiman, M. & Ruth, 1950
Smith, C. Powers, 1923
Smith, Howard E., 1912, 1913, 1914, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1926, undated
Societe de Saint-Jean, 1917
Sowerby, Leo, 1918
Spaulding, W. B., 1910
Sprague, Albert A., 1921
Stearns, Harold E., 1932
Stein, Gertrude, undated
Stein, Rita, undated
Stella, Joseph, 1929
Stephens, E. A., 1949
Stephens, Lucille Chandler, 1925
Sterne, Maurice, 1925
Sterner, Carl John, undated
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1930
Stinson, Roxie R., 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, undated
Stora, M. & R., 1926
Storgo Laboratories (David Goldsmith), 1936, 1937
Storrs, Frank Herbert, 1924, 1926
Storrs, John W., 1918
Storrs, Louis, 1939
Storrs, Ronald, 1925, 1927, 1928
Sueur, G., 1926
Survage, Leopold & Germaine, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1937, 1945, undated
Tancrede, Robert, 1945
Tartarin, A., 1930
The Tavern, 1928
Taylor, Catherine, 1911, 1912
Texas Centennial Exposition, 1936
Thanlow, Ch. L. & Ingrid, 1919, undated
The Seven Arts Magazine, 1918
Thomas, Maxime, 1930
Tillson, Rex, 1923
Toledo Museum of Art, 1938
Tooker, Marion F., 1911
Toulouse, Roger, 1949, 1955, undated
The Transatlantic Review, 1924
Truman, Harry S., 1945 (letter to)
Turnbull, Yale, 1925, 1926
Tyson, Russell, 1922, 1927
Vallette, S., 1920
Valsuani, Claude, 1919, 1922, 1933, 1951, 1955
Vestal, Donald B., 1931
Villon, Jacques, undated
Vinton, Warren Jay & Helen Augur, 1924
Voccia, Luigi, 1914
Vogelgesang, Shepard, 1935
Wacker, Fred, 1955
Walpone, Marguerite, 1918
Ware, Mary, undated
Waring, P. A., 1921
Warwick, Katherine Murray, 1916
Webster, H. A., 1920
White, Charles E., 1932, 1933
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933
Williams, Frederick, 1924
Williams, Walter R., 1909, 1911, 1912, undated
Wilson, A. J., 1935
Wolf, Walter, 1923
Worcester, Charles H., 1928, 1929, 1945, undated
Wright, Alan, 1910
Wright, Katherine, 1921
Zamoyski, August, 1921
Zorach, William & Marguerite, 1922, 1924
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Collection Citation:
John Henry Bradley Storrs papers, 1890-2007, bulk 1900-1956. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.