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The New York Public Library presents An Art Book Series Event Large Scale Jonathan D. Lippincott and Robert Murray Wednesday January 26, 2011 6:00 p.m. Margaret Liebman Berger Forum Room 227 (2 nd Floor) The New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 5 th Avenue and 42 nd Street New York , NY 10018 212-340-0871 www.nypl.org directions Room 227 opens to public at 5:30 p.m. All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation. In 1966, Donald Lippincott and Roxanne Everett founded Lippincott, Inc., a company dedicated exclusively to working with artists to create large-scale sculpture. Artists including Claes Oldenburg, Louise Nevelson, Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman and many more have made some of their most iconic work at Lippincott. Everett photographed the process of this creation, assembling a remarkable archive of a significant period of American sculpture. Jonathan Lippincott, the author of Large Scale , presents a selection of these photographs and discusses with Robert Murray the history of this ground-breaking work. Prior to 1966, if artists wanted to create works larger than their studios or metalworking abilities allowed, they had to turn to industrial manufacturers, usually steel fabricators or boat builders, who, not surprisingly, were often unable to accommodate the creative process of making art. The opening of Lippincott, Inc. changed that and the direction of American art in the process. Functioning as an extension of the artists' studios, Lippincott, Inc. was also a new kind of all-in-one sculpture production center that put the tools of industrial fabrication in the hands of artists, allowing them to produce at a scale they had previously only dreamt of on paper. Over the years of the shop's operation from 1966 to present, Lippincott, Inc. has produced sculptures by nearly one hundred artists. Drawing on the vast collection of the images in the Lippincott archive, Large Scale : Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s presents over three hundred photographs of these artists and their iconic large scale works including Newman's Broken Obelisk, Indiana 's Love, Oldenburg 's Geometric Mouse, and Rosenthal's Alamo , many of which have been previously unseen. These rare, behind-the-scenes images offer fresh insight on an important chapter of art history and compel us all to see these enduring works with fresh eyes. Copies of Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s are available for purchase and signing at the event. Jonathan Lippincott was born the year after the first sculptures were made at Lippincott, and grew up watching the work taking place there. He studied studio art and art history at Swarthmore College , graduating in 1989. During the next few years, he worked at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts as a cook and handyman, at the Yale University Art Gallery as an art handler, and as a dessert baker in Providence , Rhode Island . In 1993 he moved to New York City to begin work in publishing, and a year later he joined Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he is currently the design manager. Since 2000 he has also worked independently as art director and designer for a range of illustrated books about architecture, landscape, and fine art. Robert Murray was born in Vancouver , Canada , grew up in Saskatchewan , lived briefly in Mexico and moved to New York in 1960. He studied at the Regina College School of Art and attended their summer workshops at Emma Lake , led by Jack Shadbolt, Will Barnet, Barnett Newman, John Ferren and Clement Greenberg. After moving to New York , Murray worked closely with Barnett Newman and assisted him with a number of projects. Although he started out as a painter, while still in Canada , Murray received a commission for a piece of sculpture for the Saskatoon City Hall . Lacking the facilities to build the piece himself, he made arrangements with John East Iron works to fabricate the sculpture in their plant. This began a pattern of working with fabricators and foundries that carried over to working with a number of fabricators in the New York area and a project for EXPO 67 that was built in Montreal . When Don Lippincott opened his plant in the early sixties, dedicated to making sculpture rather than commercial products, Murray appreciated the uniqueness of this arrangement and was among the first sculptors to work at this facility. He worked with Don Lippincott and his crew until the plant closed. “If it hadn’t been for Don Lippincott”, Murray has said, “many of us might not have realized some of our most ambitious pieces and many of the exhibitions of large sculpture would not have taken place.” Murray lives west of Philadelphia , still teaches part of the year at School of Visual Arts in New York and has a summer place and studio on an island in Lake Huron . In its second season the program series An Art Book , initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni, is a celebration of the essential importance and beauty of art books. 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