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Seymour LiptonPreliminary drawing for the sculpture Catacombs1971
1971
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Signed and dated lower left
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Estate of the artist
Michael and Alan Lipton (sons)
Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, PA
De-accessed 2017
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.
- Creator:Seymour Lipton (1903 - 1986, American)
- Creation Year:1971
- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 8.5 in (21.59 cm)
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- Condition:Very Good original condition.
- 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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