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Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1968–74

MediumNickel silver on Monel

DimensionsOverall (with base): 33 3/8 x 35 3/4 x 14 5/8 in. (84.8 x 90.8 x 37.1 cm)
Overall (without base): 30 3/8 x 35 3/4 x 14 5/8 in. (77.2 x 90.8 x 37.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of James and Barbara Palmer

Object number2002.129

Collections

American

ClassificationsSculpture

Object NameSculpture

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistoryAn 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: Sculpture, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY, December 12, 1984–February 1, 1985; Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY College of Arts and Science, Oswego, NY, February 1985; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, September–November 1985; University Art Gallery, Western Illinois University, Macomb, November–December 1985; Amarillo Art Center, January–February 1986; University Art Collections, Arizona State University, Tempe, March–April 1986; Laumier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, July–August 1986; Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, September–October 1986; Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, November 1986 Seymour Lipton: Sculpture, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, October 3, 1982–January 2, 1983; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, January 20–March 27, 1983; Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, April 28–September 5, 1983; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, October 23–December 4, 1983; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, December 17, 1983–February 5, 1984 Seymour Lipton: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, January 31–February 21, 1976ProvenanceEstate 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), 111–12, 113 (fig. 17), 215–16. Lori Verderame, Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions (exh. cat.) (Allentown, PA: Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, 2002), 18, 19 (ill., color), 22. "What's Happening," Town&Gown, March 2000, 55 (ill.). "Palmer Showcases Sculpture of Seymour Lipton," Centre Daily Times, March 3–9, 2000, 11C (ill.). Lori Verderame, “An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton,” American Art Review 12, no. 2 (April 2000): 163 (ill., color). Lori Verderame, An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (exh. cat.) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), 1 (ill., color), 33, 96 (no. 32). Lori Verderame, “The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s” (PhD diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 109, 118, 153, fig. 57. Seymour Lipton: Sculpture (exh. cat.) (Greenvale, NY: Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, 1984), 3 (ill. color), 32 (no. 6). Seymour Lipton: Sculpture (exh. cat.) (Charlotte, NC: Mint Museum of Art, 1982), 16 (ill., no. 5). Harry Rand, Seymour Lipton: Aspects of Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1979), 48. Tracy Atkinson, “Lipton’s Recent Sculpture,” Art International 20, no. 1–2 (January–February 1976): 38 (ill.). Seymour Lipton: Recent Works (exh. cat.) (New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1976), 8 (no. 3), 14 (ill., no. 3).