Jacob Lipkin, An American Sculptor
Jacob Lipkin, an American sculptor, was born April 19, 1909
in New York City’s Lower East Side.
Lipkin carved in stone and wood with a humanist’s sensibility,
often using "creatures and people from mythology to convey the harmonious connection between Man and Nature".
Between 1937 and 1940, Lipkin studied art in Manhattan at the Educational alliance, The Cooper Union, Art Students League of New York and Leonardo da Vinci Art School.
By 1940, Lipkin devoted himself fully to sculpting. He worked and lived his last 40 years in the modest home, studio, and sculpture garden he had built himself in the Township of Babylon, N.Y.
Lipkin's work was exhibited with artists including Chaim Gross, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, and Isamu Noguchi in the 1940s to 1950s including at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Providence Art Club, New Jersey Society of Painters and showings at public museums including the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In the 1950s Lipkin was an instructor at the North Shore Community College and associate professor at Silvermine College.