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: (60)
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I, II, III, IV, Sol LeWitt (United States, Connecticut, Hartford, September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) , 1969, Ink and pencil on paper
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Untitled, Sol LeWitt (United States, Connecticut, Hartford, September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) , 1981, Ink on paper
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Untitled, Sol LeWitt (United States, Connecticut, Hartford, September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) , 1988, Gouache on paper
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Sol LeWitt - 24C 1991 painted wood Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Broken Lines, Sol LeWitt (United States, Connecticut, Hartford, September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) , 1973, Etching
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Six Geometric Figures, Superimposed in Pairs, Sol LeWitt (United States, Connecticut, Hartford, September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) , 1977, Etching with aquatint
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Six Geometric Figures, Superimposed in Pairs, Sol LeWitt (United States, Connecticut, Hartford, September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) , 1977, Etching with aquatint
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Straight, Not Straight, and Broken Lines, Sol LeWitt (United States, Connecticut, Hartford, September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) , 1973, Portfolio of (seven) etchings
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Straight Lines in Four Directions, Sol LeWitt (United States, Connecticut, Hartford, September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) , 1973, Portfolio of (sixteen) etchings
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Wall Drawing #295: Six Superimposed Geometric Figures, Sol LeWitt (United States, Connecticut, Hartford, September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) , 1976, White chalk on black wall
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Sol Lewitt - Untitled 1971 painted wood National Gallery of Art American
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Sol Lewitt - Untitled 1971 painted wood National Gallery of Art American
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Sol LeWitt - Untitled 1965 pen and ink and penc Hirshhorn Museum American
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Sol LeWitt, American, Born in 1928 One-Two-One with Two Half-Off 1992 Sprayed enamel on aluminum
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Sol Lewitt - Four-Sided Pyramid 1997-1999 concrete blocks and National Gallery of Art American
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Sol LeWitt - Thirteen/Eleven 1985 Painted wood Hirshhorn Museum American
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Sol LeWitt - Wall Drawing #541 1987 ink wash on wall Virginia Museum of Fine Arts American
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Sol LeWitt, American, Born in 1928 Wall Drawing #761 1994 India ink wash Variable dimensions
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Sol LeWitt, American, Born in 1928 Wall Drawing #316 1979 Black pencil Grid, red, yellow,
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Sol Lewitt - Floor Structure Black 1965 painted wood National Gallery of Art American
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Sol LeWitt - 49 Three-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes 1967-71 enamel on steel Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College American
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Sol LeWitt - Cube Structure Base on Nine Modules 1976-77 painted birch Smith College Museum of Art American
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Sol LeWitt - Incomplete Open Cube, Eight Parts #3 1974 painted aluminum Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Sol LeWitt - Modular Open Cube Pieces 1976 painted wood The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Sol Lewitt - Series 1-2-3: 47 3-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes 1968 painted wood National Gallery of Art American
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Sol LeWitt - Wall Drawing #1113 On a wall, a triangle within a rectangle, each with broken bands of color 2003 acrylic on wall surf Hirshhorn Museum American
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Sol LeWitt - Wall Drawing #356 BB Isometric figure within which are 3" (7.5 cm) wide black lines in three directions. (Cube without a cube) 2003 acrylic on wall surf Hirshhorn Museum American
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Red Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Red Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Red Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Red Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Red Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Red Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Red Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Double Stars 1983
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Sol LeWitt Double Stars 1983
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Sol LeWitt Double Stars 1983
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Sol LeWitt Double Stars 1983
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Sol LeWitt Double Stars 1983
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Sol LeWitt Double Stars 1983
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Sol LeWitt Double Stars 1983
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Sol LeWitt Straight, Not Straight... 1973
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Sol LeWitt Straight, Not Straight... 1973
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Sol LeWitt Straight, Not Straight... 1973
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Sol LeWitt Straight, Not Straight... 1973
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Sol LeWitt Straight, Not Straight... 1973
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Sol LeWitt Straight, Not Straight... 1973
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Sol LeWitt Straight, Not Straight... 1973
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Blue Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Blue Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Blue Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Blue Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Blue Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Blue Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Stars- Blue Center 1983
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Sol LeWitt Lines not long not straight and not touching 1971
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Sol LeWitt Drawing for "Straight Lines in four Directions" 20th century
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Sol LeWitt Drawing for "Bands of Color in 4 Directions" 20th century
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Sol LeWitt Color Grids: Listing by artist 20th century
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Sol LeWitt Stars - Light Center 1983

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (37)
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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 ...
MASS MoCA: Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective
Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective comprises 105 of LeWitt’s large-scale wall drawings, spanning the artist’s career from 1969 to 2007. These occupy nearly an acre of specially built interior walls that have been installed—per LeWitt’...
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...
Takasaki Museum of Art: Reinhardt Sobye: Part of the Tomio Isahai Collection
Reinhardt Sobye states about is work: "The prevailing attitude in modern culture is that every individual is a world in his/her own right, a world from which all other's are excluded. This is a major lie. The truth is that we are each other's worl...
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...
Bendixen Contemporary Art: Turbulent Infinity: Ferdinand Ahm Krag
In his art, Ahm Krag endeavours to capture motifs and figurations in an abstract, indefinable state of ”translation”. The pictorial space stretches infinitely in all directions, while at the same time pulsating between inner and outer, micro and m...
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...
ZONE: Contemporary Art: Jack Sal: Re/Vision
ZONE is presenting a cross section of Sal‚s work, including a chapel-like space of large-scale paintings, using gesso and silk surgical tape, created specifically for this installation. Minimalist yet profoundly humanistic, his work has a handmade...
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...
Sculpture Center: The Happiness of Objects: A Group Exhibition
In the attempt to crystallize some of the main points of Mitchell’s hypothesis, the exhibition proposes The Object’s Bill of Rights, a non-exhaustive and disputable list. This will serve as criteria for the exhibition, and a working docum...
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...
Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair 2007: NY Arts Beijing to Present Works Including Keith Morant and Melanie Prapopoulos
The fair will also host a wide range of events, including roundtable discussions, concerts, and performance art, alongside more than 2,500 works of cutting-edge contemporary art by more than 300 artists representing 35 nations, including Turkey, G...
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...
Kunsthalle Bern: Jutta Koether - Aenderungen Aller Art
As critic and editor of the music and pop culture magazine Spex and as performance artist and musician, however, Koether did not fit the typical image of the art scene of that time. Since the start of her artistic career Jutta Koether has sought t...
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...
Kunstverein Hannover: Jonathan Monk: yesterday today tomorrow etc
His photographs, drawings, objects, installations, and films reproduce existing works and models, follow up on them, reinterpret them, and counteract them. His references range from Piet Mondrian to Sol LeWitt and Richard Serra to Dan Flavin as...
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...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: 21: Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum
The Museum's director Arnold L. Lehman states, "The revitalized contemporary art program at Brooklyn is managed by an exceptional team of curatorial specialists under the leadership of Eugenie Tsai, the John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Conte...
Kunsthaus Graz: Pedro Cabrita Reis: True Gardens Number 6 (Graz)
The installation True Gardens #6 (Graz) by Portuguese artist, Pedro Cabrita Reis (born 1956, Lisbon) marks yet another bold and radical attempt at conquering and simultaneously taming this resistant and subversive space. Pedro Cabrita Reis is ...
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...
Stedelijk Museum: Mapping the City
Two ideas are at the heart of the exhibition: the flâneur, a type first described by Charles Baudelaire around 1850, and the activity of dérive, a practice coined by French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord. The flâneur, a detached observer ...
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...
Trygve Lie Gallery: NANY II: Norwegian Artists in New York
Irene Christensen's art is about painting as a magical act. She has had one person exhibitions at Elverum Skogs Museum, Norway, E.F.T.A., Brussels, Belgium, Bergen Museum & Paterson Museum, New Jersey as well as many cultural centers and galleries...

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