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Odyssey

Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1951

MediumBronze on steel

DimensionsOverall (with base): 40 1/8 x 37 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (101.9 x 95.3 x 50.2 cm)
Overall (without base): 29 x 37 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (73.7 x 95.3 x 50.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of James and Barbara Palmer

Object number2002.125

Collections

American

ClassificationsSculpture

Object NameSculpture

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistoryInaugural installation: Sculpture Lounge (104), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present 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: Recent Sculpture Constructions, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, October 14–November 1, 1952ProvenanceEstate of the artist, 1986 Babcock Galleries, New York, acting as agent for the estate of the artist Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, purchased from Babcock Galleries, New York, 1990 On extended loan to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1993–99 Palmer Museum of Art, gift of James and Barbara Palmer, December 14, 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), 107 (fig. 9), 213. Shelley Kruger Weisberg, Museum Movement Techniques: How to Craft a Moving Museum Experience (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006), 15 (fig. 1.7) Lori Verderame, Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions (exh. cat.) (Allentown, PA: Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, 2002), 22. Marika Herskovic, ed., New York School Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists, A Complete Documentation of the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals: 1951–1957 (Franklin Lakes, NJ: New York School Press, 2000), 228 (ill., color). Lori Verderame, An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (exh. cat.) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), 81 (no. 19). Lori Ann Verderame, “The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s” (Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 118, 138, fig. 46. Eleanor Rait, Seymour Lipton: A Retrospective (exh. cat.) (Hempstead, NY: Hofstra Museum, 1988), 13 (ill.), 28. Albert Elsen, Seymour Lipton (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970), 30, pl. 144 [incorrectly dated 1957]. Howard Devree, “Modern Round-Up,” New York Times, October 19, 1952, X11. Seymour Lipton: Recent Sculpture Constructions (brochure) (New York: Betty Parsons Gallery, 1952), n.p. (no. 11).