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Ominous Directions
Artist
Seymour Lipton
(American, 1903 - 1986)
Date1942
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall (with base): 20 7/8 x 33 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (53 x 85.7 x 49.5 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2020.11
Collections
ClassificationsSculpture
Object NameSculpture
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom center: Lipton [illegible]
Exhibition HistoryAn American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton, Palmer Museum of Art, January 20–June 4, 2000; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 24–August 27, 2000; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, October 21–December 17, 2000; Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, January 30–April 8, 2001; Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, August 28–November 25, 2001; Martin Art Gallery, Mulhenberg College, Allentown, PA [as Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions], January 18–April 12, 2002
Published ReferencesLori Verderame, An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (exh. cat.) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), 10.
Lori Verderame, The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s (PhD diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 117, 126, fig. 37.