Prisoner

Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1948

MediumCopper, lead solder with steel base

DimensionsOverall: 81 x 16 3/4 x 16 in. (205.7 x 42.5 x 40.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of James and Barbara Palmer

Object number2002.124

Collections

American

ClassificationsSculpture

Object NameSculpture

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistoryInaugural installation: Sculpture Lounge (104), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 An 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 Seymour Lipton: A Retrospective, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, August 30–October 9, 1988 Seymour Lipton, State University Teachers College, New Paltz, NY, January 16–February 10, 1955 1951 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 17–May 6, 1951 Seymour Lipton: Sculpture, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, October 17–November 4, 1950ProvenanceEstate of the artist Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired from Babcock Galleries, New York, 1990 On extended loan to the Palmer Museum of Art, 1993–2002 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), 100 (ill., color, detail), 105 (fig. 6), 106, 212–13. Lori Verderame, Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions (exh. cat.) (Allentown, PA: Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, 2002), 10, 11 (ill., color), 22. Lori Verderame, “An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton,” American Art Review 12, no. 2 (April 2000): 162 Lori Verderame, An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (exh. cat.) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), 12, 38 (ill.), 39, 72, 73 (no. 12). Lori Ann Verderame, “The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s” (Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 59, 117, 133, fig. 2, fig. 42. Helen A. Harrison, “Powerful Imagery Evoked in Lipton Retrospective,” New York Times, October 2, 1988, sec. 21, 24. Eleanor Rait, Seymour Lipton: A Retrospective (exh. cat.) (Hempstead, NY: Hofstra Museum, 1988), 11 (ill.), 28. [possibly not the Palmer's piece—dimension difference] Albert Elsen, Seymour Lipton (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970), 30–31, pl. 92. Seymour Lipton (brochure) (New Paltz, NY: State University Teachers College, 1955), n.p. (no. 5) Howard Devree, “Of This Our Time,” New York Times, March 18, 1951, X9. 1951 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Watercolors, Drawings (exh. cat.) (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1951), n.p. (no. 41). Belle Krasne, “Lipton Metals,” The Art Digest 25, no. 3 (November 1, 1950): 17. R. G., “Seymour Lipton,” Art News 69 (October 1950): 49 (ill.) [sculpture incorrectly identified as "Genie"]. Seymour Lipton: Sculpture (brochure) (New York: Betty Parsons Gallery, 1950), n.p. (no. 2).