Desert Briar

16 March 1959, sold from the artist, Syemour Lipton, by Betty Parsons Gallery (New York, NY) to Terese and Alvin S. Lane (New Rochelle, NY); 2007, deposited on long-term loan to the Chazen Museum of Art; 2012, bequeathed to the Chazen Museum of Art

• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1995. cat. no. 32.18
• Elsen, Albert. "Seymour Lipton." New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1971. cat. no.132
• Baur, John I. H. "Nature in Abstraction." New York: The Macmillen Company for Whitney Museum of American Art, 1958. cover; p. 49
• Phillips Collection, The. "Seymour Lipton: A Loan Exhibition." Washington, D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 1964. cat. no.5

• Lane Collection, The: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/30/1995–12/3/1995
• Lawyers Collect: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1/13/1965–1/30/1965
• Seymour Lipton: A Loan Exhibition: Phillips Collection, The, 1/12/1964–2/24/1964
• Nature in Abstraction: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1/14/1958–2/8/1959

• North America
• Sculpture
• Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection

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