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Sol LeWitt

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism.[1]

Sol LeWitt

Solomon LeWitt

(1928-09-09)September 9, 1928
Hartford, Connecticut, US

April 8, 2007(2007-04-08) (aged 78)

New York City, US

Painting, Drawing, Sculpture

LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred to "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, installation, and artist's books. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. The first biography of the artist, Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas, by Lary Bloom, was published by Wesleyan University Press in the spring of 2019.[2]

Collection[edit]

Since the early 1960s he and his wife, Carol Androccio, gathered nearly 9,000 works of art through purchases, in trades with other artists and dealers, or as gifts.[46] In this way he acquired works by approximately 750 artists, including Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman, Hanne Darboven, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Kazuko Miyamoto, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Gerhard Richter, and others. In 2007, the exhibition "Selections from The LeWitt Collection" at the Weatherspoon Art Museum assembled approximately 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs, among them works by Andre, Alice Aycock, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jan Dibbets, Jackie Ferrara, Gilbert and George, Alex Katz, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Mario Merz, Shirin Neshat, Pat Steir, and many other artists.[47]

Museum collections[edit]

LeWitt's works are found in the most important museum collections including: Tate Modern, London, the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Hallen für Neue Kunst Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia, Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Dia:Beacon, The Jewish Museum in Manhattan, Pérez Art Museum Miami,[55] Florida, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology List Art Center's Public Art Collection,[56] Cambridge, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.[57] The erection of Double Negative Pyramid by Sol LeWitt at Europos Parkas in Vilnius, Lithuania was a significant event in the history of art in post Berlin Wall era.

Art world[edit]

His auction record of $749,000 was set in 2014 for his gouache on paperboard piece Wavy Brushstroke (1995) at Sotheby's, New York.[61]

Bloom, Lary. Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas, Wesleyan University Press, 2019. ( 978-0-8195-7868-6)

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LeWitt, Sol. Arcs, from Corners & Sides, Circles, & Grids and All Their Combinations. Bern, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Bern & Paul Biancini, 1972.

LeWitt, Sol. The Location of Eight Points. Washington, DC: Max Protetch Gallery, 1974.

LeWitt, Sol. Photogrids. New York: P. David Press, 1977/1978.  0-8478-0166-7

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Legg, Alicia (ed.). Sol LeWitt: the Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York: The Museum, 1978.  0-87070-427-3

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LeWitt, Sol. Geometric Figures & Color. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1979.  0-8109-0953-7

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LeWitt, Sol. Autobiography. New York and Boston: Multiple and Lois and Michael K. Torf, 1980.  0-9605580-0-4

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LeWitt, Sol. Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings, 1968-1984. [Amsterdam, Endhoven, and Hartford, CT: Stedelijk Museum, Van Abbemuseum, and Wadsworth Atheneum, 1984.]  90-70149-09-5

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LeWitt, Sol. Sol LeWitt Prints, 1970-86. London: Tate Gallery, 1986.  0-946590-51-6

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LeWitt, Sol. Sol LeWitt Drawings, 1958-1992. The Hague: Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1992.  90-6730-092-6

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LeWitt, Sol. Sol LeWitt, Twenty-Five Years of Wall Drawings, 1968-1993. Andover, MA, and Seattle: Addison Gallery of American Art and University of Washington Press, 1993.  1-879886-34-0

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LeWitt, Sol. Sol LeWitt - Structures, 1962-1993. Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 1993.  0-905836-78-2

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LeWitt, Sol, Cristina Bechtler, and Charlotte von Koerber. 100 Cubes. Ostfildern: Cantz, 1996.  3-89322-753-9

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LeWitt, Sol. Sol LeWitt, Bands of Color. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999.  0-933856-58-X

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Garrels, Gary, and Sol LeWitt. Sol LeWitt: a Retrospective. San Francisco and New Haven: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yale University Press, 2000.  0-300-08358-0

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Gale, Peggy (ed.). Artists Talk: 1969–1977. Halifax, NS: , 2001. ISBN 0-919616-40-2

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

LeWitt, Sol, Nicholas Baume, Jonathan Flatley, and Pamela M. Lee. Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes. Hartford, CT, and Cambridge, MA: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and MIT Press, 2001.  0-262-52311-6

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LeWitt, Sol, Dean Swanson, and Martin L. Friedman. LeWitt x 2: Sol LeWitt: Structure and Line: Selections from the LeWitt Collection. Madison, WI: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006.  0-913883-33-6

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LeWitt, Sol. Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings. Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2006.  88-89431-59-8

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Cross, Susan, and Denise Markonish (eds.). Sol LeWitt: 100 Views. North Adams, MA, and New Haven, CT: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Yale University Press, 2009.  978-0-300-15282-1

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Maffei, Giorgio, and Emanuele De Donno. Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books. Sant'Eraclio di Foligno, Italy: Viaindustriae, 2009.  978-88-903459-2-0

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LINES & FORMES (sic), Livre d'artiste (album de douze planches en noir et blanc), édité par YVON LAMBERT, Paris 1989,  978-2-900982-06-8.

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Roberts, Veronica (ed.), Lucy R. Lippard, and Kirsten Swenson. "Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt." Austin: Blanton Museum of Art. Distributed by Yale University Press, 2014.  0-300-20482-5

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An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, introduction by Regine Basha (New York: , 2011). ISBN 9781932698527, 1932698523

Cabinet Books

Stolz, George, and Sol LeWitt. Sol LeWitt: Fotografía. Madrid, Spain: Fondación ICO / La Fábrica Editorial, 2003.  978-8495471734

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54 Columns

Sol LeWitt exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC 2013

Sol LeWitt artwork at Brooke Alexander Gallery

at the Museum of Modern Art

Sol LeWitt

1974 July 15, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Oral history interview with Sol LeWitt

Boston Globe, Boston, MA

In vast LeWitt show, absurdity and beauty

Cotter, Holland. New York Times, December 4, 2008.

Now in Residence: Walls of Luscious Austerity.

Lacayo, Richard. Time magazine, November 17, 2008.

Sol LeWitt's Dazzling Line Drawings.

Exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 2008

(PDF file, 8 p., ca. 10 MB)

Thomas Dreher: Sol LeWitt: The two Series "Forms derived from a Cube" and "Pyramids"

Dreher, Thomas. (German, illustrated review of an exhibition in 1993 at the Villa Stuck in Munich)

Sol LeWitt: Structures 1962-1993.

Dreher, Thomas. (German, illustrations of a room in the Lenbachhaus in Munich with four wall drawings realized by LeWitt's crew in 1986)

Sol LeWitt: "Pyramids" for Joseph Beuys, Munich 1986

LeWitt's prints

Crown Point Press

Sol LeWitt at NMAC Foundation

Vogel, Carol. New York Times, September 13, 2009.

Subway Riders Are Greeted by a Blast of Sol LeWitt Color

Kimmelman, Michael. New York Times, April 9, 2007.

Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78.

in the Connecticut Post

Obituary

Associated Press. April 9, 2007.

“Sol LeWitt, influential American artist, at 78.”

Gray, Sadie. Independent, UK, April 10, 2007.

Conceptualist pioneer Sol LeWitt dies aged 78.

on ArtNet.

Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt Interviews, Conceptual Paradise, Leuphana University Lueneburg

Sol LeWitt's exhibition at Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Sol LeWitt at The Jewish Museum