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Maquette for Argonaut

Artist Seymour Lipton (American, 1903 - 1986)

Date1960

MediumMonel

DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (26.7 x 39.4 x 17.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of James and Barbara Palmer

Object number2002.133

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 ProvenanceCollection of James and Barbara PalmerPublished 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), 217 (ill., color). Lori Verderame, Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions (exh. cat.) (Allentown, PA: Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, 2002), 10 (ill.), 22. Lori Verderame, An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton (exh. cat.) University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), 101 (ill., color, no. 38). Lori Verderame, "The Sculpture of Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s" (PhD diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 115.