Jacob Lipkin

Place: New York

Born: 1909

Death: 1996

Biography:

Jacob Lipkin (1909-1996) was an American sculptor born in New York City’s Lower East Side. He studied art in Manhattan at the Educational Alliance, The Cooper Union, Art Students League of New York and Leonardo da Vinci Art School between 1937 and 1940. Lipkin devoted himself fully to sculpting in 1940 and worked and lived in the Township of Babylon, N.Y. for the rest of his life. He built a modest home, studio, and sculpture garden for himself. Lipkin's work was exhibited with artists including Chaim Gross, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, and Isamu Noguchi in the 1940s to 1950s. He was an instructor at the North Shore Community College and associate professor at Silvermine College in the 1950s. Lipkin received numerous awards, including the New Jersey Society of Painters and Sculptors Medal of Honor in 1958 and First Prize in 1964, and Silvermine Guild Award. He exhibited widely during the 1950s with a variety of artists. Over nearly four decades he participated in over 70 group exhibitions and had 21 one-man shows. Lipkin's work is in private and public collections and museums. His sculptures in museums include the Head of a Pony, 1947, in grey granite at The Fogg Museum at Harvard; the Camel, 1947, in white marble, and the Ram, 1945, in sandstone and lead at The Parrish Art Museum on Southampton, New York; the Ape, 1953, in the collection of the Philadelphia Zoo; Head of the Prophet Isaiah 1952 at the Jewish Museum in New York City; the Pelican circa 1954 at the St. Lawrence University, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Canton, New York; and Bear Cub 1966 at the Smithsonian Institution, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C. Lipkin's other work residing at museums include The East River, N.Y.C. painting 1928 at the Luce Center of the New-York Historical Society; John Brown bas-relief at the Howard University Law Society in Washington, D.C.; and a sculpture at the Maritime Industry Museum, Fort Schuyler, N.Y. Lipkin died of cancer at the age of 87 years on April 27, 1996, in West Babylon, New York.