Sol LeWitt

1928–2007

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Biography

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

LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred instead of "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.

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Artworks

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Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #1136

2004
Sol LeWitt Two Open Modular Cubes/Half-Off

1972
Sol LeWitt A Wall Divided Vertically into Fifteen Equal Parts, Each with a Different Line Direction and Colour, and All Combinations

1970
Sol LeWitt A Square Divided Horizontally and Vertically into Four Equal Parts, Each with a Different Direction of Alternating Parallel Bands of Lines

1982
Sol LeWitt Five Open Geometric Structures

1979
Sol LeWitt Six Geometric Figures (+ Two) (Wall Drawings)

1980–1
Sol LeWitt Arcs from Four Corners

1986

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Sol LeWitt Small Etching/Black & White No.4

1999

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Film and audio

TateShots

Sol Lewitt: Studio Visit

A rare opportunity to see Sol Lewitt's studio in Connecticut, USA

Features

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Giving time to time: Alighiero Boetti at Tate Modern I

Mark Godfrey

One of the most important and influential Italian artists of the twentieth century, Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) is renowned for the …
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Minimalism

Minimalism is an extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s and typified by artworks composed …
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Non-objective art

Non-objective art defines a type of abstract art that is usually, but not always, geometric and aims to convey a …
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Modular

Modular is a term used particularly in relation to minimalism, referring to a work of art with constituent parts that …
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Serial art

Serial art is art that adheres to a strict set of rules to determine its composition or to determine a …
Interview

Interview with Helen Charash about the life and work of her late sister Eva Hesse

Simon Grant1

Eva Hesse (1936–1970) was born into a Jewish family in Hamburg. Aged only two, she and her five year old …
Tate Papers

Wavelength: On Drawing and Sound in the Work of Trisha Donnelly

Anna Lovatt

Involuntary Drawing
Tate Papers

Tate Papers no.14: Autumn 2010

Read about William Blake’s exhibition of 1809, drawing as a modern art practice, and the concept of the sublime. The …
Tate Papers

Ideas in Transmission: LeWitt’s Wall Drawings and the Question of Medium

Anna Lovatt

This article considers Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings as artworks poised on the cusp of the ‘post-medium condition’ of installation art. …
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Surviving Reality: Lee Bontecou’s Worldscapes

Jo Applin

This article focuses on American artist Lee Bonteco’s drawing practice during the early 1960s, focusing in particular on Drawing 1961. …