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Study for Bond
1986 · black crayon on white paper
Sheet: 21.6 x 28 cm (8 1/2 x 11 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Seymour Lipton
1903
WA-00013621
SculptureSurrealismAbstract ExpressionismExpressionism
Representation
None documented
11
Institutional Exhibitions
51
Works in Collection
78
Assets Indexed
2
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
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Authority Records (2)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
No image
Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
No image
Five Sculptures from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
No image
Art Lending Service Retrospective
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
No image
Recent Sculpture U.S.A.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
No image
Recent American Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1957
No image
Twelve Americans
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956
No image
Selections from the Art Lending Service
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
No image
Playground Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
No image
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
Field Verification (2 fields)
1 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
- NationalityArtsy· 85%
Source Registry (3)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
- Artsy (bulk)Tier 1 · Institutional85%
- Artist IndexTier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%
About
Why this artist matters now
Seymour Lipton 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.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Movement
Surrealism
Medium
Sculpture
Related Artists
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Institutional
Museum Collections
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Artworks (51)
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Artwork sources (4)
51 published of 74 catalogued · 56 with image
- MoMA23 publishedof 46 catalogued42 img
- Art Institute Chicago14 published14 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art7 published
- The Met7 published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)
7 entries · 1 sources
- 1970 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1986 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1951 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1976 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1973 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1964 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1978 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Relationships
7Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
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