Argosy

Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1946, cast 1948

MediumBronze

DimensionsOverall (without base): 12 5/8 x 28 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. (32.1 x 71.8 x 27.3 cm)
Overall (with base): 14 3/8 x 29 3/8 x 10 3/4 in. (36.5 x 74.6 x 27.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of James and Barbara Palmer

Object number2002.123

Collections

American

ClassificationsSculpture

Object NameSculpture

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

More Information

Signedverso bottom right: Lipton

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 ProvenanceEstate of the artist Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired from Babcock Galleries, New York, 1990 On extended loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1992–99 Palmer Museum of Art, gift of James and Barbara Palmer, 2002Published 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. 3), 212. Lori Verderame, Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions (exh. cat.) (Allentown, PA: Muhlenberg College, 2002), 12–13 (ill., color), 22. Lori Verderame, An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), 66 (no. 5, ill., color). Lori Ann Verderame, “The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s” (Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 117, 128, fig. 39.