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Seymour Lipton
Preliminary drawing for a sculpture
1959

Name: Preliminary drawing for a sculpture
Brand: Seymour Lipton
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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)
Medium:
Crayon
Movement & Style:
Abstract
Period:
1950-1959
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Fairlawn, OH
Reference Number:
Seller: FA103361stDibs: LU14014309332

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