Olympic Iliad, a Liberman sculpture at the Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington.

Alexander Liberman (1918-1999) was a Russian-American publisher, painter, and scuptor. Born in Kiev, he was educated in Paris, where he began his publishing career with the early pictorial magazine Vu. After emigrating to New York in 1941, he began working for Conde Nast Publications, rising to the position of Editorial Director, which he held from 1962-1994. The two-letter abbreviation VU has several different meanings: Country codes VU is the country code of Vanuatu; .vu is its ccTLD. Companies Vivendi Universal, now Vivendi SA, a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ... Condé Nast Publications Inc. ...

It was only in the 1950s that Liberman took up painting and, later, metal sculpture. His highly recognizeable sculptures are assembled from industrial objects (segments of steel I-beams, pipes, drums, etc.,) often painted in uniform bright colors. Prominent examples are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Storm King Art Center, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Tate Gallery, and the Guggenheim Museum. The central lobby of the museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums, located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York, United States. ... The Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York is an open air museum which has extended the concept of a sculpture garden to become a sculpture landscape. ... The exterior of the Hirshhorn Museum The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum located in Washington, DC on the National Mall and designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft. ... The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... The Guggenheim Museum refers to any of several museums worldwide created and run by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. ...

External links

• http://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/LibermanA/LiebermanAFile/ALiberman0302.html
• http://www.stormking.org/AlexanderLiberman.html