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Marci Lipman (born 1948) is a Canadian graphic artist and owner of a defunct chain of speciality clothing stores in Toronto.

Lipman started and continues to a be a graphics designer in Toronto with her sister Louise Lipman (born 1953). During the 1980s and 1990s, Lipman operated a chain of stores selling children's and adult T-shirts with cartoon-like characters. These stores initially did well, but the concept failed to hold and the remaining stores closed in the late 1990s.

She subsequently was an investor in Via Verde, a Toronto store for indoor-outdoor container gardening.

Louise Lipman left Toronto in the 1980s to open a gallery in Los Angeles and has since returned to operate the Louise Lipman Contemporary Art gallery with her sister Marci.

The two sisters are authors of a series of book on Canadian art published in the 1980s by Lester & Orpen Dennys of Toronto.

• Horizons: Contemporary Canadian Landscapes (ISBN 0886190576) / selected by Marci Lipman and Louise Lipman. 1st ed. -- Toronto : Lester & Orpen Dennys, c1985.
• Twenty painters, twenty paintings: contemporary Canadian art (ISBN 0919630103)/ selected by Marci Lipman and Louise Lipman. -- Toronto : Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1979.
• Images : contemporary Canadian realism (ISBN 0919630359) / selected by Marci Lipman and Louise Lipman. -- Toronto : Lester and Orpen Denys, c1980.

External links

• Louise Lipman Contemporary Art

References

• Canada's Style at Home - 5 steps to choosing colour. Storeowner Marci Lipman shares her colour secrets. By Sonja Rasula
• Discount Store News, February 17, 1997 by Jim Fox. Canadian retailers still struggling - includes related article on theft prevention Discusses the closing of the Marci Lipman stores.
• The Toronto Star, Feb 11, 2008. "Dorothy a role model for business leaders", by David Olive Mentions Marci Lipman as one of several "past casualties in the apparel field"

Category:Canadian businesspeople in retailing Category:People from Toronto Category:Living people Category:Canadian artists Category:1948 births