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Lipton, Seymour
Lipton, Seymour (1903–1986). American sculptor, born in New York. He studied dental sugery at Columbia University, 1923–7, and was entirely self-taught as a sculptor; by 1932 he was seriously committed to art, but for many years after that he pursued a dual career (like Ferber, another dentist-sculptor). Until the mid-1940s he carved in wood and stone, using violent distortions to reflect the social struggle and anguish of the years of the Depression and the Second World War. In about 1942, however, he took up metal casting and abandoned the human figure as a subject, instead using ‘skeletal forms, horns, pelvis … to convey the basic struggles in nature on a broader biological level'. By 1945 his work was completely abstract and he became part of a group ( Ferber, Lassaw, Roszak) whose work paralleled that of the Abstract Expressionist painters. His first one-man exhibition of metal sculpture was at the Betty Parsons gallery in 1948. In the 1950s, as he searched for ‘a controlled organic dynamism', his violently expressive abstractions began to give way to more lyrical forms fashioned from curving shells of Monel (a nickel-copper alloy) welded together at the edges and covered with nickel-silver or bronze. Towards the end of the 1950s he once again introduced forms suggestive of the human figure, as in Sentinel (Yale University Art Gallery, 1959). He had many major public commissions, including Archangel (1964) for Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, New York.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Lipton, Seymour." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Lipton, Seymour." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-LiptonSeymour.html IAN CHILVERS. "Lipton, Seymour." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-LiptonSeymour.html |
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Seymour Lipton
Seymour Lipton 1903–86, American sculptor, b. New York City. Self-taught as a sculptor, Lipton worked directly in sheet metals and molten alloys, creating organically twisting forms with richly brazed textural effects. During the 1940s he sculpted heavy jagged shapes suggesting spiritual conflict. In the 1950s his work tended to more graceful forms evocative of plant and animal life. Representative works are Jungle Bloom (Yale Univ. Art Gall., New Haven) and Sanctuary (Mus. of Modern Art, New York City). |
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"Seymour Lipton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Seymour Lipton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-LiptonS.html "Seymour Lipton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-LiptonS.html |
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Lipton, Seymour
Lipton, Seymour. See Abstract Expressionism.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Lipton, Seymour." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Lipton, Seymour." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-LiptonSeymour.html IAN CHILVERS. "Lipton, Seymour." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-LiptonSeymour.html |
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Lipton, Seymour
Lipton, Seymour See Abstract Expressionism.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Lipton, Seymour." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Lipton, Seymour." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-LiptonSeymour.html IAN CHILVERS. "Lipton, Seymour." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-LiptonSeymour.html |
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