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Seymour Lipton

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Seymour Lipton (1903 - 1986) was active/lived in New York.  Seymour Lipton is known for Bird-form abstract sculpture, carver.

Born in New York City, Seymour Lipton became one of the modern-art innovators for direct metal sculpture, breaking away from the traditional methods of creating bronze sculpture from complex casting processes. With Abstract Expressionist style, he created a method of working in sheet metal brazed with bronze or nickel silver, flexible but solid looking material that allowed him freely to cut and weld basic shapes. A rust-proof alloy, it was called Monel.

His themes, many of them having to do with bird subjects of flight and confinement and those issues relative to the American working class, paralleled the Abstract Expressionist movement in American painting. Of this themes, he said: ""For me, experiences of movement, flight, strength, space, air, tensions, etc. . . . Basically 'man' concerns me in all the various things I make. I find 'inner spaces' of man in things outside of himself;" (Herskovic 210)

He was closely linked socially and intellectually to the 1940s and 19   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9257 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Seymour Lipton


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Direct Carver, Hand Carving
  • Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
  • Wood Carving, Woodcarving
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Mythology, Legends
  • Nature, Environment, Botanicals, Conservation
  • Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
  • Social Realism
Art School
  • Columbia University Art Department, Student
  • Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Teacher
  • New School For Social Research (The New School), Teacher
  • Yale University School of Fine Art, and Architecture, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • First National Bank of Chicago Collection
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Venice Biennale
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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