Lipman, Jean (1909-1998)

US folk art collector and author. She worked for Art in America, a magazine devoted to the decorative arts. She and her husband, Howard Lipman, purchased the magazine and she became editor-in-chief (1941-71). As husband and wife they amassed several major folk art collections, while maintaining homes in Wilton, Connecticut, New York City, and Arizona. She became a trustee emeritus of the Museum of American Folk Art, and wrote and coauthored numerous books, notably The Flowering of American Folk Art (1974), coauthored with Alice Winchester. She was born Jean Herzberg in New York City. She studied at Wellesley College and New York University.