Fabricating Large Scale Sculpture: Jonathan Lippincott on James Rosati
Fee: FREE, but registration required
To mark the acquisition and installation of James Rosati’s Double Arc I at Lynden Sculpture Garden, Jonathan D. Lippincott will discuss the history of Rosati’s long and prolific collaboration with the art fabricator Lippincott, Inc. Founded in 1966 by Donald Lippincott and Roxanne Everett, the company was the first of its kind, dedicated exclusively to working with artists to realize large-scale sculpture. The studio transformed how monumental artworks could be fabricated, with a roster of artists including Clement Meadmore, Claes Oldenburg, Nancy Graves, Ellsworth Kelly, Marisol, Robert Murray, Louise Nevelson, and Barnett Newman, among many others. Jonathan explores the company’s founding, its partnership-based business model, and the collaboration, creativity, and material expertise that flourished at the Lippincott workshop.
About Jonathan Lippincott
Jonathan D. Lippincott began his publishing career in 1994 at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he enjoyed 25 years as a book designer. Since 1999, he has been principal at Lippincott Book Design, working as art director, designer, and packager on a range of illustrated books and catalogs about fine art, architecture, landscape, and design. Jonathan is the author of two books, Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s and the monograph Robert Murray: Sculpture.
