Seymour Lipton For Older Children

Seymour Lipton began his professional life as a dentist and then became a sculptor. At first he was interested in carving wooden sculptures, but later he worked with metal. He sculpted using thin sheets of Monel metal that had a gleaming silvery appearance. He heated these sheets and shaped them into abstract forms. He also used nickel-silver, which is a hard silver-white metal that looks like a nickel.

The abstract forms Lipton created were sometimes anthropomorphic in that they resembled human forms. Seymour Lipton’s artistic style is biomorphic and geometric abstraction.