| 1891 |
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Born Chaim Jacob Lipshitz on August 22, at Druskininkai, Lithuania. |
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| 1909-11 |
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Goes to Paris in October. Studies at the Ecole des Beaux – Arts and at the Academie Julian. |
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| 1911-15 |
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Settles and works in Monparnasse, where he becomes friends with Diego Rivera, Max Jacobs, Modigliani, Kisling, Soutine, Picasso, Juan Gris and Pascin. |
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| 1913 |
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Creates his first Cubist sculptures. |
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| 1914-15 |
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Visits Mallorca and Madrid with Diego Rivera then returns to Paris. |
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| 1915-20 |
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Sailor with Guitar, Woman with Braids, Head and other major Cubist sculptures. |
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| 1916 |
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Modigliani paints the portrait of Lipshitz and his wife, now in the Art Institute, Chicago. |
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| 1920 |
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Portraits of Cocteau, Radiguet and Gertrude Stain. First one – man exhibition at the Leonce Rostenberg Gallery, Paris. Monographe on Lipshitz by the critic Maurice Raynal. |
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| 1921 |
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Portrait of Coco Chanel. |
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| 1922 |
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Dr. Albert C. Barnes visits the artist in Paris, purchases sculptures and commissions five reliefs for installation at his mantion at Merion, Pennsylvania ( now The Barnes Foundation). |
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| 1924 |
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Becomes a French citizen. |
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| 1925 |
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Moves to Boulogne – sur-Seine into a house specially designed for him by Le Corbusier. Begans to work on a series of transparant sculptures, in the lost wax process, wich greatly inpresses Picasso and Gonzales. |
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| 1927 |
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La Joie de Vivre for the garden of the Vicomtesse de Noailles at Hyeres, near Toulon. |
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| 1927-28 |
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Large sale sculptures such as The Couple (The Cry). |
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| 1930 |
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First retrospective exhibition of 100 works at the Galerie de la Renaissance (Jeanne Bucher), Paris. |
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| 1935 |
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First large exhibition in the US at the Brummer Gallery, New York. |
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| 1936-37 |
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Executes Prometheus for the entrance to the Sience Pavilion at the Paris World Fair, where Picasso also shows Guernicaand Gonzales Monserrat in the Spanish Pavillion. He is awarded the Gold Medal. Lipshitz room at “Les Maitres d’Aujourd’hui”, Petit Palais, Paris. |
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| 1940 |
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Flees to Toulouse when the Germans occupy Paris. |
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| 1941 |
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Finally, after 30 years in France, he leaves for the US where he settles in New York. |
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| 1942 |
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Begins to exhnit regulary at the Buchholz Gallery – later (1946) Curt Valentin Gallery, New York. |
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| 1946 |
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Visits Paris and is made Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur. |
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| 1947-48 |
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Moves to Hastings–on–Hudson, New York and begins series of studies for commission for the church of Notre-Dame-de-Toute-Grace at Assy. |
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| 1952 |
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Receives George D. Widener Memorial gold medal award from Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, Philadelphia for Prometheus Strangling the Vulture. |
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| 1953 |
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Moves his studio as well to Hastings-on-Hudson after fire destroys the Manhattan studio. |
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| 1954 |
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Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center , Minneapolis; Cleveland Museum of Art. |
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| 1955 |
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Receives Alfred G. B. Steel award from Pennsylvania Academy of Arts for Mother and Child, 1949-54. |
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| 1958 |
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Receives Honorary Doctorate from Brandeis University. Works with Philip Johnson on gateway for Roofless Church in New Harmony, Indiana. Large travelling exhibition in Europe at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo; Kunsthalle, Basel; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund; Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris; Palais des Beaux- Arts, Brussels; Tate Gallery, London. |
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| 1959 |
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Series of ambimorphic bronzes from small objects for the exhibition A la limite du possible at the Fine Arts Associates, New York. |
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| 1963 |
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Begins to spend his summers in Pietrassanta (Lucca), Italy, where he starts to work at the Tommasi Foundry. Large travelling restrospective in the US at the University of California at Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Fort Worth Art Center; Walker Art Center; Des Moines Art Center; Philadelphia Museum of Art. |
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| 1963-65 |
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157 Bronze Sketches, 1912-1962 exhibition at the Marlborough – Gerson Gallery, New York and subseqently at the Currier Gallery; Albright Kox Art Gallery; Atlanta Art Association; Joslyn Art Museum; Tweed Gallery of the University of Minnesota; Arts Club of Chicago; Detroit Institute of Arts;also circulated internatinally to Buenos Aires; Santiago; Lima; Melbourne; Auckland Washington D.C. |
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| 1964 |
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Exhibition oh Cubist sculpture and reliefs at the Philips Collection, Washington. |
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| 1965 |
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Award for Cultural achievement from Boston University, where he has a one-man exhibition. Installation of John F. Kennedy in London and Newark. |
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| 1966 |
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Images from Italy exhibition at Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York. Gold Medal from Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. |
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| 1963 |
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Lipshitz – the cubist period: 1913-1930 exhibition at Marlborough-Gerson Gallery New York. |
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| 1968-69 |
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Works on casting of major sculptures at Pietrasanta Italy, and also at Modern Art Foundry and Avnet & Show Foundry, New York. |
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| 1969 |
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Detecates 45 ft. high bronze sculpture Peace on Earth commissioned by Los Angeles County Music Center. Award of Merit from Einshtein University Medal of achivement from American Institute Architects. |
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| 1970-72 |
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Retrospective exhibition organised by the Neuer Berliner Kunstvereine, Berlin at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna. Further retrospectves at the Tel Aviv Museum and Israel Museum, Jeruselem. |
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| 1972 |
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My life in Sculpture, major exhibition at the Metrapolitan Museum of Art, New York. Extensive work on monumental sculpture commissions for Columbia Law School (Bellerophon Taming Pegasus), Municipal Plaza, Philadelphia (Government of the People) and Mount Scopus, Israel (Our Tree of Life). |
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| 1973 |
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Died May 27 on the island of Capri. The artist lived and worked in Pieve di Camaiore, Italy. He was a Doctor Honoris Causa at Columbia University, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and at Tel Aviv University. |
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From: A Tribute to Jacques Lipchitz. Lipchitz in America : 1941-1973 |
