Horizontal Composite
Sol LeWitt
1970
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 30.6 x 85.7 cm (12 1/16 x 33 3/4 in.) sheet: 45.7 x 101.6 cm (18 x 40 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Virginia Dwan
Accession Number
1992.70.1
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...