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Moby Dick #2

Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1948

MediumBronze with wood base

DimensionsOverall (with base): 18 3/4 x 18 3/4 x 14 in. (47.6 x 47.6 x 35.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2020.13

Collections

American

ClassificationsSculpture

Object NameSculpture

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedverso bottom center: Lipton / '48

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, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA [as Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions], January 18–April 12, 2002 Unpainted to the Last: Moby Dick in American Art, 1940–1990, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, August 20–October 8, 1995; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, November 4–December 24, 1995; Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, January 12–March 3, 1996ProvenanceCollection of James R. and Barbara R. PalmerPublished 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, 2013), 104 (fig. 4). Lori Verderame, Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions (exh. cat.) (Allentown, PA: Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, 2002), 22. Lori Verderame, An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (exh. cat.) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), 8 (ill., color), 11–12, 30, 69 (no. 8). Lori Verderame, "The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s" (PhD diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 117, 131–32, fig. 41. Elizabeth A. Schultz, Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1995), 143 (fig. 7.2), 144–45.