By 1911, he was living in Paris, where he studied with Auguste Rodin and also attended the Académie Julian.

In 1914, Storrs married the novelist and writer Marguerite Deville Chabrol and started dividing his time between France and the United States.

During World War II Storrs was twice arrested and imprisoned by the German occupation forces.

Storrs is best remembered for his late-career abstract works, often cast from materials not used in traditional sculpture such as aluminum and stainless steel.

He is responsible for the Ceres sculpture at the top of the Chicago Board of Trade Building.