Images(2)

Lynched

Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1933

MediumMahogany

DimensionsOverall: 12 3/4 x 27 x 17 in. (32.4 x 68.6 x 43.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of James and Barbara Palmer

Object number2002.120

Collections

ClassificationsSculpture

Object NameSculpture

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistoryAn American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton, Palmer Museum of Art and traveling, September 26, 2000-February 18, 2003; Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, Jewish Museum, March 17, 1992–June 30, 1994; Seymour Lipton: A Retrospective, Hofstra Museum, August 30–October 9, 1988; 1935, The Year and the Arts, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University April 18–June 23, 1985; S. A. Lipton Sculpture, A.C.A. Gallery, New York, October 31–November 12, 1938; Buchholz Gallery, 1943; ACA Gallery, 1938; Working Class Sculpture, John Reed Club, New York, possibly April 5–20, 1935; The World Crisis Expressed in Art: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints on the Theme “Hunger, Fascism, War,” John Reed Club, New York, December 8, 1933–January 7, 1934;ProvenanceBarbara and James Palmer Collection, State College, PA; Babcock Galleries, New York; Estate of the ArtistPublished References“Several Sculpture Shows,” New York Times, April 14, 1935 S. A. Lipton Sculpture (brochure) (New York: A.C.A. Gallery [1938]), n.p. (no. 4) Jerome Klein, “Reviews in Brief—A.C.A. Gallery,” New York Post, November 5, 1938 Jeannette Lowe, “Sculpture in Wood: A First Showing by S. A. Lipton,” Art News 37 (November 5, 1938): 17 Henry McBride, “Attractions in the Galleries,” New York Sun, November 5, 1938 “S. A. Lipton’s ACA Show Vigorous With Social Purpose,” Daily Worker, New York, November 12, 1938 Seymour Lipton: A Decade of Recent Work, The Creative Process, exh. cat. (Milwaukee: Arrow Press, 1969), n.p. (Biography) Albert Elsen, Seymour Lipton (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970), 15–16, 61, n.p. (ill., color, pl. 39) Harris Rosenstein, “Lipton’s Code,” Art News 70 (March 1971): 47 Seymour Lipton: Recent Works, exh. cat. (New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1971), 6 Seymour Lipton, exh. cat. (Zurich: Marlborough Galerie, 1974), 9 (ill.) Wayne Andersen, American Sculpture in Process: 1930–1970 (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975), 73 Vanguard American Sculpture, 1913–1939, exh. cat. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1979), 57 Roberta K. Tarbell, “Seymour Lipton’s Carvings: A New Anthropology for Sculpture,” Arts Magazine 54 (October 1979): 78 (ill., fig. 1), 79–81 Seymour Lipton: Sculpture, exh. cat. (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1982), 29 1935, The Year and the Arts (Hempstead, N.Y.: Hofstra University, 1985), n.p. (ill.) Seymour Lipton: A Retrospective (Hempstead, N.Y.: Hofstra Museum, 1988), 3, 4 (ill.), 8, 23, 28 Helen A. Harrison, “Powerful Imagery Evoked in Lipton Retrospective,” New York Times, October 2, 1988 Seymour Lipton: Major Late Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: Babcock Galleries, 1991), 42 Marlene Park, “Lynching and Antilynching: Art and Politics in the 1930s,” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 18, no. 1 (1993): 324 (ill., fig. 3) Seymour Lipton: Sculptures, Maquettes and Drawings, exh. cat. (New York: Maxwell Davidson Gallery, 1995), n.p. (Biography) Lori Ann Verderame, “The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s” (Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 82–83, 117, 120–21, n.p. (fig. 33) Lori Verderame, An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), 9, 27, 44–45, 60, 61 (ill., color) Milly Heyd, Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999), 106–7, 110 (ill., fig. 62) Frances K. Pohl, Framing America: A Social History of American Art (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2002), 412, 413 (ill., fig. 7.76) Lori Verderame, Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions (Allentown: Muhlenberg College, 2002), 22 Dora Apel, Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004), 153, 154 (ill., fig. 68) Shelley Kruger Weisberg, Museum Movement Techniques: How to Craft a Moving Museum Experience (New York: AltaMira Press, 2006), 13 (ill., fig. 1.5), 14 Zoe Trodd, “The Reusable Past: Abolitionist Aesthetics in the Protest Literature of the Long Civil Rights Movement” (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 2009), 153 Diana L. Linden, “Visual Essay: An Introduction to the Visual and Material Culture of New York City Jews, 1920–2010,” in City of Promises, vol. 3, Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920–2010, ed. Jeffrey S. Gurock (New York: New York University Press, 2012), 228, 229 (ill., color)