Grids Using Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines in Yellow, Red & Blue and All Their Combinations
published 1975
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bound volume of 45 color etchings on wove paper
Dimensions
page size: 26.7 x 26.7 cm (10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Joshua P. Smith Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.207.3
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...