Seymour Lipton

Winter Solstice #2, nickel silver on monel metal, 1957, in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Seymour Lipton (6 November 1903 – 15 December 1986) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. He initially trained as a dentist but focused on sculpture from 1932. 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.

Books

Lori Verderame^[1] (best known as TV's Dr. Lori from the Discovery channel)^[2] wrote the definitive monograph on Seymour Lipton entitled Seymour Lipton: An American Sculptor in 1999. The book was based on the author's Ph.D. dissertation entitled Seymour Lipton: Themes of Nature in the 1950s.^[3] Much of his art addresses the themes of flight, nature and war.

See also

• Laureate public sculpture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

References

• History of Sculpture by Allan Marquand and Arthur L Frothingham, page 293, ISBN 0-87891-408-0
• Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4. p. 210-213
• Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6. p. 18; p. 37; p. 226-229
• The Grove Dictionary of Art (excerpt available online)
• Intro by art historian Dr. Lori
• Dr. Lori Verderame