The
presents
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
212-340-0871
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.
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,
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
Robert Murray was born in
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. The events showcase book presentations and discussions by world renowned and emerging artists, critics, curators, designers, historians and writers.
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