Lives on Display: Portrait Artist David Lipman Brings Paintings to Library

Viewers of David Lipman's portraits are likely to be struck first by their detailed realism, then by their ability to evoke not only the moment they capture, but the subject's life up until that moment. And that is, according to Lipman, very much by design.

 "In each of my portraits I strive to create a composition of that person's attributes, not just their likeness, to produce the 'landscape' of their lives," Lipman said in a press release

Lipman, whose "Washington Observing the Troops" has been on display at the Donald B. Palmer Museum in the Springfield library for some time, has created a new series that focuses on individual faces. Those pictures will be available for viewing at the museum until Sep. 30.

Lipman has been painting portraits since he was a child. He was drawn to the medium by the relationship between painter and subject.

"I was drawn to them in the great museums, always fascinated by the artist's interpretation and how they had become a landscape of the soul," he said. "Standing in front of one of them, it would tell you something more about the person, the culmination of their lives up to that point.

Lipman is a painter and commercial/fine art photographer. Born and educated in London, his commercial work has been featured in Archtectural Digest, Town & Country, Time and Newsweek. His fine art photography and paintings hang in galleries and collections in America and Europe.

The Donald B. Palmer Museum is located in the Springfield Free Public Library, 66 Mountain Ave., Springfield. Hours of the exhibit are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The library is closed on Sunday in September.

For information call (973) 376-4930.