Lyman Kipp is a sculptor and painter who creates pieces that are composed of strong vertical and horizontal objects and are often painted in bold primary colors recalling arrangements by De Stijl

De Stijl

De Stijl , propagating the group's theories. Next to van Doesburg, the group's principal members were the painters Piet Mondrian , Vilmos Huszár , and Bart van der Leck , and the architects Gerrit Rietveld , Robert van 't Hoff , and J.J.P. Oud...

 Constructivist

Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th...

s. Kipp is an important figure in the development of the Primary Structure style which came to prominence in the mid-1960s.

Kipp's early work in the 1950s focused on geometric, plaster reliefs and cast bronzes (see No. 1 - 1959 or Directional I). He moved on to large, geometric, welded pieces composed of post and beam elements emphasizing the vertical during the 1960s (see Andy's Cart Blanche, Muscoot or Hudson Bay). Finding it difficult to transport large, heavy, welded pieces, he turned to angled sections and sheets of steel and aluminum that could be bolted together on site. Typically the pieces were painted with bright colors and the thin edges were often defined with bright, complementary colors (see Long Distance,Chicksaw or Kobi). In the late 1970s, Kipp's steel sheets began to move into the air on thin legs (see Lockport 1977, Salute to Knowledge or Yoakum Jack).

Kipp was a founding member of ConStruct, the artist-owned gallery that promoted and organized large-scale sculpture exhibitions throughout the United States. Other founding members include Mark di Suvero

Mark di Suvero

Marco Polo "Mark" di Suvero is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born Marco Polo Levi in Shanghai, China in 1933 to Italian expatriates. He immigrated to San Francisco, California in 1942 with his family. From 1953 to 1957, he attended the University of California, Berkeley to study...

, Kenneth Snelson

Kenneth Snelson

Kenneth Snelson is a contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works are composed of flexible and rigid components arranged according to the idea of 'tensegrity', although Snelson does not use the term....

, John Raymond Henry

John Raymond Henry

John Raymond Henry is an internationally renowned sculptor. Since 1971, Henry has produced many monumental and large-scaled works of art for museums, cities and public institutions across the United States, Europe and Asia...

 and Charles Ginnever

Charles Ginnever

Charles Ginnever is an American sculptor. He was born in San Mateo, California, in 1931. In 1957, he received his BA from the San Francisco Art Institute and received his MFA from Cornell University in 1959. He started working with canvas and steel scraps painted with bright patterns...

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Although Kipp's health has declined in recent years, the latest news is that he is working on a new commission for 2011.

Education/Teaching/Grants

1950 - 1952 Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

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, Brooklyn, NY

1952 - 1954 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan

1960 - 1963 Bennington College

Bennington College

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, Vermont

Vermont

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1962 - 1963 Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...

, Brooklyn, NY

1963 - 1968 Hunter College

Hunter College

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, NYC

1966 Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

, NH (Visiting Artist)

1967 Summer Research Grant, City University of New York

1968 - 1975 Lehman College

Lehman College

Lehman College is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, USA. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within the City University in 1968. The college is named after Herbert Lehman, a former New York governor,...

, NYC (Chairman - 1968 - 1974)

1975 - 1978 Hunter College

Hunter College

Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...

, NYC (Chairman)

1978 - 1985 Hunter College

Hunter College

Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...

, NYC

1985 Hunter College

Hunter College

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, NYC (Professor Emeritus)

1966 Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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1966 Fulbright Grant

Fulbright Program

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1970 City University Faculty Research Grant

1975 City University Faculty Research Grant

1977 Art Park, Lewiston, NY

1980 Hand Hollow Foundation, New York

1982 Schuster Grant

United States

Alabama

• Cherokee, 1977, University of Alabama
  University of Alabama
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  , Huntsville
  Huntsville, Alabama
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Arizona

• Hudson Bay, 1968, Museum of Art, University of Arizona
  University of Arizona
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  , Tucson

California

• Trap II, 1965, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
  University of California, Berkeley
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• Chickasaw, 1977, California State University, San Bernardino
  San Bernardino
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• Highline, 1976, Federal Building & Post Office, Van Nuys

Colorado

• Alto, 1984, Hoffman Heights Library, Aurora
• Red Wing, 1974, Aurora Corporate Plaza, Aurora

District of Columbia

• Alternate Design for Highline, 1975, Smithsonian American Art Museum
  Smithsonian American Art Museum
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  , Washington
• Salamanca, 1969, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington

Florida

• Dollbaby, 1991, Pinewood Park, Largo
• Levenworth, 1978, Pinewood Park, Largo
• D, Greynolds Park, North Miami Beach
• Tonawanda, 1977, Am South Bank, Naples
  Naples, Florida
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• Kenosha, 1984, von Liebig Art Center, Naples
  Naples, Florida
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• Untitled(blue/red), 1984, von Liebig Art Center, Naples
  Naples, Florida
  Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of July 1, 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 21,653. Naples is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated total population of 315,839 on July 1, 2007...
  
  
• Untitled(black/red), 1984, von Liebig Art Center, Naples
  Naples, Florida
  Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of July 1, 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 21,653. Naples is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated total population of 315,839 on July 1, 2007...
  
  
• E, 1979, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach

Massachusetts

• Auro, 1965, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  , Cambridge
• Bartar, 1968, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover
• Median II, 1963, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover

Michigan

• No. 1-1959, 1959, Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Oshkosh, 1978, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids
• Bullshoals, 1978, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids
• Kobi, 1982, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids
• Study for Zephyr, 1973, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids
• Salute to Knowledge, 1981, Grosse Pointe Public Library, Grosse Pointe Farms
• Muscoot, 1979, Calvin College Campus, Grand Rapids
• Long Distance, 1979, Calvin College Campus, Grand Rapids

Nebraska

• Ulysses, 1972, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  Lincoln, Nebraska
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New York

• Wild Rice, 1967, Empire State West Plaza, Albany
  Albany, New York
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• Directional I, 1962, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
  Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
  
  
• Flat Rate II, 1969, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
• Trianon, 1963, Whitney Museum of American Art
  Whitney Museum of American Art
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  , NYC
• Lockport 1977, 1977, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville
• Untitled, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville
• Placid, 1978, Sewage Treatment Plant, Lake Placid
  Lake Placid, New York
  Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....
  
  

New Jersey

• Yoakum Jack, 1977, William Paterson University
  William Paterson University
  William Paterson University is a comprehensive public institution located in Wayne, New Jersey serving nearly 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students through five colleges: , , , , and ....
  
  , Wayne

Pennsylvania

• Music Box, 1956, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
• Manly, 1980, Hartwood Acres Park
  Hartwood Acres Park
  Hartwood Acres Park is a county park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Hartwood is considered the crown jewel of the county's network of nine distinct parks....
  
  , Pittsburgh
• Wink, 1980, Penn State University, University Park

Wisconsin

• Bullfinch, 1968, Lakefront Sculpture Park, Milwaukee
• Lodgepole, 1968, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee