The studio of sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, who lived in Hastings from 1947 until his death in 1973, has been donated to the Village.
The village board voted Feb. 16 to accept the midcentury-modern structure at 22 Aqueduct Lane as a gift from the art foundation administered by Lipchitzâs heirs. His descendants were virtually âpresentâ at the Zoom meeting: his daughter, Lolya Lipchitz, speaking from her home in Grinnell, Iowa, and his stepson, Hanno Mott, who is president of the Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Foundation.Â
âIâm incredibly grateful to Hastings-on-Hudson for accepting this gift,â Lolya Lipchitz said. âI canât think of a better way that it should go forward than to be in Hastingsâ hands. I grew up there and went to school there, and Iâm thrilled, really thrilled, that this is working out this way.â