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Richard Lippold Obituary
ROSLYN, N.Y. (AP) - Richard Lippold, a sculptor whose abstract works are featured at New York's Avery Fisher Hall and at Harvard University, died Aug. 22. He was 87.
Lippold created giant metal abstractions, many of which are suspended by wires so they appear to be hovering or moving through space.
His piece "World Tree," a 27-foot structure of straight and circular metal tubes that resembles a radio antenna, stands on the Harvard University campus.
He is also known for "Ad Astra," a double spire that rises 115 feet in front of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, and "Orpheous and Apollo," a constellation of bronze bars connected by wires in the lobby of Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center.
Lippold studied industrial design, piano and dance at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. He worked as a freelance industrial designer for several years before teaching art at the University of Michigan.
He later taught at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., and Hunter College in New York.
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