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Seymour LiptonPreliminary drawing for a sculpture1959
1959
About the Item
Preliminary drawing for a sculpture
Black crayon on paper, 1959
Signed and dated middle right (see photo)
A rare 1950's AbEx drawing.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Michael and Alan Lipton (sons)
Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, PA
De-accessed 2017
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches
Note: Lipton did a large number of preliminary drawings that formed the basis for many of his sculptures. His sons and heirs, Michael and Alan donated a number of similar drawings to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Metropolitan Museum, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Harvard Art Museums, and LACMA.
"Seymour Lipton began a career as a dentist in 1927. After a few years, he grew interested in sculpture and soon gave up medical practice to devote all of his time to art. His dark and often violent images were influenced by the fragmented forms of cubism, the psychological currents of surrealism, and the vivid portrayal of human suffering in German Expressionism. Lipton’s powerful sculptures reflect the physical forces used in their creation. By hammering, folding, twisting, and welding large pieces of sheet metal, he expressed what he saw as man’s struggle to survive in a modern, technological world. He was interested in anatomy and often ripped apart his sculptures, exposing the many layers of jagged metal to evoke dissected or exploded organic forms." Courtesy SAAM
Seymour Lipton’s works are in numerous museum collections worldwide including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC; Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Didrichsen Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, NY; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY; Hammer Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY; New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; San José Museum of Art, San José, CA; Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; São Paulo Museum, São Paulo, Brazil; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico; Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
- Creator:Seymour Lipton (1903 - 1986, American)
- Creation Year:1959
- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 8.5 in (21.59 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Fairlawn, OH
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Seymour Lipton
Seymour Lipton was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. His early choices of medium changed from wood to lead and then to bronze, and he is best known for his work in metal. He made several technical innovations, including brazing nickel-silver rods onto sheets of Monel to create rust resistant forms. Through the medium of metal sculpture, Lipton endeavored to portray the inner complexities of the human psyche through shapes that enclose and oppose each other, interrelating convex and concave, solid and hollowed forms. Although his imagery was often based on visual stimuli, his expressive abstractions were never literal translations of the visible world. He altered and arranged shapes to create sculptures symbolizing intangible, universal concepts absorbed from sociology, psychology, and myth.
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