Bands of Lines in Four Directions
1991
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View on museum website →Medium
gouache over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 28.89 × 73.03 cm (11 3/8 × 28 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds 1994)
Accession Number
2014.136.223
About the Artist
Sol LeWitt
Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (1928–2007) was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents; his father, a doctor and inventor, died when Sol was six, after which he lived with his mother, a nurse, and an aunt in New Britain. His mother enrolled him in art classes at the Wadsworth Atheneum, fostering his early interest in drawing. LeWitt earned a BFA from Syracuse University in 1949, w...