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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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Facts about Seymour Lipton

   Publications  Book References:  102
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Seymour Lipton
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America The Objects of War September 2004 Harper, Paula Yes
Art in America Clem's Cache November 2001 Taylor, Sue Yes
Art & Antiques On View June June 2000 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
American Art Review An American Sculptor:Seymour Lipton April 2000 Verderame, Lori Yes
102 Book References for Seymour Lipton
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2001 Wilkin, Karen and Bruce Guenther Clement Greenburg: A Critic's Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2000 Herskovic, Marika New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists 393 Yes
2000 Verderame, Lori; Irv Sandler An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton 120 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1995 Burnham, Patricia/L H Giese Redefining American History Paintng 409 No
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 National Gallery of Art Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 283 No
1994 Reynolds, Donald Martin Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium 275 Yes
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1991 Hall, Lee Betty Parsons Artist, Dealer, Collector 192 Yes
1991 Polcari, Stephen Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience 408 Yes
1991 University Gallery-Delaware Brandywine Valley to the Bay Art from Private Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 161 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Clarke, David J The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture 410 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1987 Sandler, Irving The Empire State Collection Art for the Public 214 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Champa, Kermit S. (Intro); Nancy Versaci (Essay) Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 Hunter, Sam The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection 599 Yes
1984 Kampf, Avram Jewish Experience In the Twentieth Century 240 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1981 Buettner Stewart American Art Theory 1945-1970 213 No
1981 Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor) Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University) 106 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776 208 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Legg, Alicia American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA 84 Yes
1975 Taylor, Joshua C To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art 117 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Elsen, Albert Seymour Lipton 244 Yes
1974 Kuh, Katherine (Foreward); Gaylord Freeman (Intro) The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago 274 Yes
1974 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Sculpture 310 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Johnson, Charlotte Buel Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development 96 Yes
1973 McClanathan, Richard Art in America A Brief History 216 Yes
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Neilson, Katharine B Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery 343 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1969 Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld Art Today 542 Yes
1969 Lieberman, William Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 139 Yes
1969 Rhode Island School of Design The Albert Pilavin Collection Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1968 McLanathan, Richard The American Tradition in the Arts 492 No
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1968 Rubin, William S Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (Museum of Modern Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 No
1968 Weller, Allen S The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art 185 No
1967 Ashton, Dore Modern American Sculpture 130 Yes
1967 Grossman, Emery Art and Tradition The Jewish Artist in America 176 Yes
1967 Rashell, Jacob Jewish Artists in America 197 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Cheney, Sheldon A Primer of Modern Art 392 No
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Henning, Edward B Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19
(Exhibition catalog)		 209 Yes
1966 Hunter, Sam (chapter on US) New Art Around the World 510 Yes
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1963 International Assoc. of Art Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ... 119 No
1963 Lipman, Jean (editor) What Is American in American Art 180 Yes
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1960 Chaet, Bernard Artists at Work 156 No
1958 Baur, John I H Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1956 Miller, Dorothy C 12 Americans: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1956 Tate Gallery Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1955 Baur, John I H/Rosalind Irvine The New Decade 35 American Painters and Sculptors
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1955 Museum of Modern Art El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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