Eight Small Etchings/Color
1999
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portfolio of eight hardground etchings and title page on Somerset Textured white paper
Dimensions
image: 10.2 x 10.2 cm (4 x 4 in.) sheet: 21 x 21 cm (8 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.) overall: 22.5 x 23.2 cm (8 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2001.142.60.1-8
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...