Torr worked alongside her artist husband Arthur Dove and friend Georgia O'Keeffe to develop a characteristically American style of Modernism in the 1920s.

[4] Throughout her career, Torr tended to focus on the creation of both oil paintings and charcoal-based drawings.

[3] Around 1924 the couple settled aboard a sailboat anchored in Halesite on Long Island.

Torr's work was exhibited publicly only twice during her life,[6] one of those at Alfred Stieglitz's gallery An American Place in 1933 as part of a group show.

[10] The cottage in which she and Dove resided was acquired in 1998 by the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, and in 2000, was accepted into the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios Program administered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.