Artist: Sol Lewitt

A leader in the movements of Minimalism and Conceptualism, Sol LeWitt’s work ranges from photography to works on paper to wall drawings, and includes 3-dimensional structures that explore different geometric forms such as pyramids and cubes.  His work has been shown in hundreds of museums and galleries around the world, including his first retrospective, which was presented in 1978-79 by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and current long-term exhibitions at MASS MoCA (Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective) and Dia:Beacon (Sol LeWitt: Drawing Series…).  His works are included in the collections of the Tate Modern, London; the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Amsterdam; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dia:Beacon, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.  LeWitt died in New York City in 2007, at the age of 78.

Photo: Courtesy of The LeWitt Estate