TitleEight Horses--Thirteen Legs
Artist
Immi Storrs
(American, b. 1945)
Date1988
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 12 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.
Other (Sculpture): 11 1/4 × 18 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.
Other (Base): 1 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 12 3/4 in.
EditionThis work was cast in an edition of ten.
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, October 20, 1993
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1993.39
Label TextStorrs’ interest in animal sculpture developed early in her career, and she has explored the subject in works that range from table-top size to large outdoor commissions. Among the animals she has depicted are horses, birds, bulls, sheep and goats. Storrs puts her personal poetic stamp on her works, eliminating unnecessary elements and enhancing the anatomical features of her forms, working within the modernist tradition of Henry Moore and Marino Marini. The artist has explained: “I just decide what animal I want to do, then figure out how I’m going to make it more interesting. . . . I can abstract the form later, but first I have to make sure the basic structure is correct . . . . Some of the pieces I dream . . . . They simply evolve, and when I start building the armature and developing the ideas, I think about the artistic points-what works as form and what doesn’t.”
