Adventurer

Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1977

MediumNickel silver on Monel

DimensionsOverall (with stone base): 48 3/4 x 105 1/2 x 28 in. (123.8 x 268 x 71.1 cm)
Overall (with concrete base): 62 3/4 x 105 1/2 x 28 in. (159.4 x 268 x 71.1 cm)
Overall (without base): 45 3/4 x 105 1/2 x 28 in. (116.2 x 268 x 71.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of James and Barbara Palmer

Object number2002.130

Collections

American

ClassificationsSculpture

Object NameSculpture

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistorySeymour 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, 1984ProvenanceEstate 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), 112–13, 114 (fig. 18), 216. Lori Verderame, “The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s” (PhD diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 119, 160, fig. 62. Seymour Lipton: Sculpture (exh. cat.) (Charlotte, NC: Mint Museum of Art, 1983), 10, 22 (ill., color, no. 13).