Artist: Sol Lewitt (1928 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Minimalism
Media: Sculpture, Installation
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Biography:
Sol LeWitt’s career took off in the beginning of the 1960’s when he adopted Minimal art in his sculpture. He is also known for his involvement in Conceptual art and Land art. In 1968, he created a metal cube and buried it in the ground in the Netherlands. He then proceeded to document the process by which the cube disappeared. LeWitt also wrote a good deal of articles on Conceptual art and worked as a printmaker.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Sol LeWitt, Drawing for the set Scribbles, 1971
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Sol LeWitt, CrownPoint, 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled, 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled, 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled, 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled, 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled, 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Untitled , 1980
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Sol LeWitt, Geometric Figures Within Geometric Figures, 1976
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Sol LeWitt, Geometric Figures Within Geometric Figures, 1976
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Sol LeWitt, Drawing for the set 6 Geometric Figures, 1974
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Sol LeWitt, LINES FROM THE MIDPOINTS OF LINES,
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Sol LeWitt, LINES FROM THE ENDS OF LINES
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Sol LeWitt, Arcs from Four Corners, 1986
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Sol LeWitt, LINES FROM POINTS TO POINTS,
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Sol LeWitt, Color and Black, 30 x 17 #3, 1991
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Sol LeWitt, Color and Black, 30 x 17 #4, 1991
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Sol LeWitt, Color and Black, 30 x 17 #1, 1991
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Sol LeWitt, Color and Black, 30 x 17 #2, 1991
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Sol LeWitt, Color & Black #3 (24 x 24), 1991
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Sol LeWitt, Arcs and Lines, 1975
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Sol LeWitt, Kimono and Sash, 1982
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Sol LeWitt, pl. 15 from the set, Scribbles Printed in Four Directions Using Four Colors, 1971
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Sol LeWitt, pl. 14 from the set, Scribbles Printed in Four Directions Using Four Colors, 1971
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Sol LeWitt, pl. 6 from the set, Scribbles Printed in Four Directions Using Four Colors, 1971
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Sol LeWitt, pl. 13 from the set, Scribbles Printed in Four Directions Using Four Colors, 1971
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Sol LeWitt, pl. 12 from the set, Scribbles Printed in Four Directions Using Four Colors, 1971
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Sol LeWitt, pl. 11 from the set, Scribbles Printed in Four Directions Using Four Colors, 1971

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (25)
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes/MATRIX 143
The works will be installed throughout the museum, stimulating comparisons with art of earlier centuries. Coinciding with the LeWitt retrospective at the Whitney Museum of ...
Whitney Museum of Art: Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective
This exhibition is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Significant support for this exhibition has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and by a g...
Sothebys.com: 20TH Anniversary Benefit Auction for BOMB Magazine
Bidding for these works is exclusively online on www.sothebys.com through May 21. All of these works will be on exhibition during a benefit dinner hosted by BOMB Magazine on May 21st at Eybeam Atelier, Inc. Following dinner, an additional nine l...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: SOL LE WITT: A Retrospective
Four decades of LeWitt's work are charted in this exhibition. Wall drawings--works executed directly on the wall in pencil, crayon, ink washes, and recently acrylic paint--and structures--the term LeWitt prefers to use for his...
ccnoa: Works by Olivier Mosset, Dan Walsh and Sol LeWitt
In an unusual collaboration between veteran monochrome painter Olivier Mosset and Dan Walsh, Walsh sets up the exhibition space as a guide to the viewing of Mosset‚s red, yellow, and blue monochrome canvases. Drawing on recent installations - the ...
Stedelijk Museum: Up to now = Tot zo ver
The presentation which is being assembled at the moment by departing director Rudi Fuchs and a number of the Museum's curators will include all of the disciplines in the collection. The emphasis lies on the postwar period, although many familiar (...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective
LeWitt's work strikes a delicate balance between perceptual and conceptual qualities; between dedication to the simplicity and order of geometry and his pursuit of visual beauty and intuitive creation; and between authorship and anonym...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: New Work: Edgar Arceneaux
Organized by SFMOMA curatorial associate Jill Dawsey, this focused presentation, part of SFMOMA’s New Work series, features selections from the artist’s recent project Borrowed Sun, his most ambitious body of work to date. Here Arceneaux invokes j...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: After the Beginning and Before the End: 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono
The exhibition After the Beginning and Before the End - 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono is about these beginnings. In 222 examples of the artist’s first steps toward the finished product, this exhibition s...
Palazzo della Gran Guardia: La percezione dello spazio: Panza di Biumo collection - Guggenheim NY
They represent one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the world and together offer a significant critical overview of Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Environmental Art (1960s-1970s). At the beginning of the 1990s a major part ...
Stedelijk Museum: Conceptual Art (1965_1975) from Dutch and Belgian Collections
Between 1965 and 1975 there was an international network of well-known and lesser known conceptually -- oriented artists, whose work and actions have been important to and characteristic of this art movement. The works shown at the Stedelijk...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Fred Sandback: Sculptures and Drawings
Distinctively, Sandback developed a way of working that dispensed with the mass and weight of materials, and ultimately used acrylic yarn, sometimes multi-coloured, stretched across architectural space. He made sculptures whose factual existen...
Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin: Unknown Territory
Shown in the diffused natural light of Dia's galleries, this exhibition makes available classic works rarely seen due to their fragility and rarity. Closing November 7, 2005, "unknown territory" will be followed in December 2005 by an installation...
University of Virginia Art Museum: Roads Taken: 20th-Century Prints and Drawings
The majority of works in the exhibition reflect the artists' social perspective, such as Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's collage drawing commenting on salmon fishing, Kara Walker's "African/American" linocut, and Luis Jimenez's observation on servitude...
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College: Inaugural Exhibtion: S.O.S. - Scenes of Sounds
Inventions such as the telephone, tape recorder, loudspeaker, radio, Walkman, compact disk, internet radio, and computer-synthesized speech have produced dra...
Bayly Art Museum: Charlottesville Collects
“We think our visitors will be both surprised and delighted to see the wonderful works in Charlottesville Collects,” says Jill Hartz, director of the Bayly Art Museum. “We are thrilled to share these works with the public, and are so grateful ...
Portland Museum of Art: Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection
As a teacher at Freeport High School and Curator of Maine Coast Artists in Rockport, Brown has educated many people about art and has also assembled a phenomenal collection of contemporary prints on a limited budget. Brown began collecting in the...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao: Changing Perceptions: The Panza Collection
Dr. and Mrs. Giuseppe Panza di Biumo began acquiring art in 1956; today, together with private holdings, the Panza collection includes over 2,500 works. Between 1966 and 1975 the Panzas amassed one of the most ambitious collections of...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios
Rauschenberg made his Wadsworth Atheneum debut in 1964, in several guises. His legendary Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) had its first public showing with other early work in the group exhibition Black, White and Grey: Contemporary Painting and ...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Extreme Connoisseurship - How Traditional Study of Objects Can Be Adapted to Illuminate Current Works
The Fogg’s decision four years ago to create a Department of Modern and Contemporary Art was, in a way, the genesis of this exhibition, said James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot director of the Harvard University Art Museums. Extreme Connois...
BUSCH-REISINGER MUSEUM, Harvard University Art Museums: HANNE DARBOVEN'S EXPLORATIONS OF TIME, HISTORY, AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
At the center of this exhibition, For Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1983) is an impressive 90-panel work that includes postcards, collaged photographs, and lithographic printing in addition to the artists signature handwritten calendrical counting....
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...

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