Images(2)

Sargasso

Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1951

MediumNickel silver on steel with wood base

DimensionsOverall: 29 3/4 x 33 1/8 x 12 1/2 in. (75.6 x 84.1 x 31.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.127

Collections

American

ClassificationsSculpture

Object NameSculpture

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistorySeymour Lipton Sculpture: Post–War America in Three Dimensions, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, January 18–April 12, 2002 Recent Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, September 29–October 11, 1952 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, [unknown start date]–March?, 1952ProvenanceEstate of the artist Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired from Babcock Galleries, New York, 1990 Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art), 105, 106 (fig. 7), 107, 214. Lori Verderame, Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions (exh. cat.) (Allentown, PA: Muhlenberg College, 2002), 16 (ill., color), 22. Lori Verderame, An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), 30–31. Lori Ann Verderame, “The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s” (Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 117, 134, fig. 43.