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Constructivists. Kipp is an important figure in the development of the

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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

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. Kipp's health deteriorated and he died peacefully on March 30, 2014. His last known works were in 2011.

Education/Teaching/Grants

1950 - 1952

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...

, Brooklyn, NY
1952 - 1954

Cranbrook Academy of Art The Cranbrook Educational Community is an education, research, and public museum complex in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This National Historic Landmark was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. It consists of C ...

, Michigan 1960 - 1963

Bennington College Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont. Founded in 1932 as a women's college, it became co-educational in 1969. It claims to be the first college to include visual and performing arts as an equal partner in ...

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1962 - 1963

, Brooklyn, NY
1963 - 1968

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

, NYC
1966

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

, NH (Visiting Artist)
1968 - 1975

Lehman College Lehman College is a public college in the Bronx borough of New York City. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967. The college is named after Herbert H. Lehma ...

, NYC (Chairman - 1968 - 1974)
1975 - 1978

, NYC (Chairman)
1978 - 1985

, NYC
1985

, NYC (Professor Emeritus) 1966

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

1966

Fulbright Grant The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

1967 Summer Research Grant, City University of New York
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

Monumental sculptures and public works

United States

Alabama * ''Cherokee'', 1977,

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Arizona * ''Hudson Bay'', 1968, Museum of Art,

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, Tucson California * ''Trap II'', 1965, University Art Museum,

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* ''Chickasaw'', 1977, California State University,

San Bernardino San Bernardino (; Spanish language, Spanish for Bernardino of Siena, "Saint Bernardino") is a city and county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the city had a ...

* ''Highline'', 1976, Federal Building & Post Office,

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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 The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

, 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,

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* ''Kenosha'', 1984, von Liebig Art Center,

* ''Untitled'' (blue/red), 1984, von Liebig Art Center,

* ''Untitled'' (black/red), 1984, von Liebig Art Center,

* ''E'', 1979, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach Indiana * ''Range'', 1974, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne Massachusetts * ''Auro'', 1965, List Visual Arts Center,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, Cambridge Michigan * ''No. 1-1959'', 1959, Museum of Art,

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* ''Oshkosh'', 1978, Grand Rapids Art Museum,

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* ''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,

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New Hampshire * ''Bartar'', 1968, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover * ''Median II'', 1963, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover New York * ''Wild Rice'', 1967, The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, west plaza, Albany * ''Directional I'', 1962,

Albright-Knox Art Gallery The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly known as the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, is an art museum at 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, in Delaware Park. the museum's Elmwood Avenue campus is temporarily closed for construction. It hosted e ...

, Buffalo * ''Flat Rate II'', 1969,

, Buffalo * ''Trianon'', 1963,

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...

, NYC * ''Lockport 1977'', 1977, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville * ''Untitled'', Storm King Art Center, Mountainville * ''Placid'', 1978, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid New Jersey * ''Yoakum Jack'', 1977,

William Paterson University William Paterson University, officially William Paterson University of New Jersey (WPUNJ), is a public university in Wayne, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education. Founded in 1855 and was named after American ju ...

, Wayne Pennsylvania * ''Music Box'', 1956, Philadelphia Museum of Art,

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* ''Manly'', 1980,

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* ''Wink'', 1980, Penn State University, University Park Tennessee * ''Dragon Fly'', 1995, Sculpture Fields of Montague Park,

Chattanooga Chattanooga ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Located along the Tennessee River bordering Georgia, it also extends into Marion County on its western end. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, ...

* ''Hugo'', 1980, Sculpture Fields of Montague Park,

Wisconsin * ''Bullfinch'', 1968,

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* '' Lodgepole'', 1968,

References

*Janovy, Karen O., Siedell, Daniel A., Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (University of Nebraska Press, 2006) *Sculpture Off the Pedestal (Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1973) Library of Congress: 73-88657 *Construct (Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, 1979) *
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