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Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1960

MediumNickel silver on Monel

DimensionsOverall: 32 5/8 x 38 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (82.9 x 97.2 x 51.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of James and Barbara Palmer

Object number2002.126

Collections

American

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, 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, Hempstead, NY, August 30–October 9, 1988 Seymour Lipton, Marlborough Galerie, Zurich, September–October, 1974 Seymour Lipton—A Decade of Recent Work: The Creative Process, Milwaukee Art Center, September 14–October 26, 1969 Seymour Lipton: A Loan Exhibition, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, January 12–February 24, 1964 The Creative Process, New School for Social Research, New York, May 16–June 10, 1961 Lipton, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, March 14–April 8, 1961 Paths of Abstract Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, October 5–November 13, 1960ProvenanceEstate of the artist Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired from Babcock Galleries, New York, 1990 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), 108 (ill.), 214. Lori Verderame, Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions (exh. cat.) (Allentown, PA: Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, 2002), 20–21 (ill., color), 22. Lori Verderame, An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (exh. cat.) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), front cover (ill., color, detail), 89 (no. 26). Lori Verderame, “The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s” (PhD diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 118, 142–44, fig. 49. Eleanor Rait, Seymour Lipton: A Retrospective (exh. cat.) (Hempstead, NY: Hofstra Museum, 1988), 12, 13n6, 14 (ill.), 28. Harry Rand, Seymour Lipton: Aspects of Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1979), 16–17. Tracy Atkinson, “Lipton’s Recent Sculpture,” Art International 20, no. 1–2 (January–February 1976): 40. Seymour Lipton (exh. cat.) (Zurich: Marlborough Galerie, 1974), 4 (no. 5), 19 (ill., no. 5). Albert Elsen, Seymour Lipton (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970), n.p. (pl. 164). Seymour Lipton—A Decade of Recent Work: The Creative Process (exh. cat.) (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Center, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee 1969), n.p. (ill., no. 5). Katharine Kuh, “Metaphor in Metal,” Saturday Review, February 29, 1964, 24. Leslie Judd Ahlander, “Lipton’s Show Generates a Glow,” Washington Post, January 16, 1964. Frank Getlein, “Phillips Opens Major Show By Contemporary American,” Evening Star (Washington, DC), January 12, 1964. Seymour Lipton: A Loan Exhibition (brochure) (Washington, DC: Phillips Collection, 1964), n.p. (no. 22). Seymour Lipton, “A Problem in Sculpture: The Question of Intensity and the ‘Total Image,’” The Register of the Museum of Art/The University of Kansas 2, no. 8 (April 1962): 13 (ill.). The Creative Process (brochure) (New York: New School for Social Research, 1961), n.p. (no. 7). John Canaday, “Sculpture Alive,” The New York Times, March 19, 1961, X19 (ill.). Lipton (brochure) (New York: Betty Parsons Gallery, 1961), n.p. Albert Elsen, “Seymour Lipton: Odyssey of the Unquiet Metaphor,” Art International 5, no. 1 (February 1961): 41, 43. Edward B. Henning, Paths of Abstract Art (exh. cat.) (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1960), 84 (ill., no. 125).