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Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1963–64

MediumNickel silver on Monel

DimensionsOverall (with base): 95 1/2 x 45 x 46 1/2 in. (242.6 x 114.3 x 118.1 cm)
Overall (without base): 83 1/4 x 27 1/4 x 46 1/2 in. (211.5 x 69.2 x 118.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of James and Barbara Palmer

Object number2002.127

Collections

American

ClassificationsSculpture

Object NameSculpture

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistoryBilly Rose Art Garden, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, August 1965 Seymour Lipton, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, March 1965ProvenanceThe 180 Beacon Collection of Contemporary Art, Boston, by 1967 Collection of the artist, possibly by 1975 Estate 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, 2002 Published 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, 109 (fig. 11), 110, 112, 215, back cover (ill., color). Lori Verderame, Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions (exh. cat.) (Allentown, PA: Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, 2002), 15. 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), 48. Lori Verderame, The Founder of Sculpture as Environment: Herbert Ferber (1906–1991) (exh. cat.) (Hamilton, NY: Picker Art Gallery, 1998), 11–12. Lori Verderame, “Assessing the Sculptor’s Process: Drawings by Seymour Lipton,” The Picker Art Gallery Journal 4, no. 4 (1996–97): 16. Lori Verderame, “The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s” (PhD diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 118, 147, 151, fig. 52. Harry Rand, Seymour Lipton: Aspects of Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1979), 25, 28. Albert Elsen, Seymour Lipton (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970), 46, 51, pl. 182. The 180 Beacon Collection of Contemporary Art (Boston: 180 Corporation, 1967), n.p. (no. 98, ill.). Sam Hunter, “Seymour Lipton,” Das Kunstwerk 20 (December 1966): 35. Sam Hunter, "Seymour Lipton," in Seymour Lipton (exh. cat.) (New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1965), 4 (ill., no. 18), 6, 10 (no. 18). “The Contemporary Scene: Notes, Quotes and Footnotes,” Arts Magazine 39 (April 1965): 10.