Untitled [working proof 1]
1991
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View on museum website →Medium
hard ground etching and spit bite aquatint with colored pencil additions on wove Somerset paper [working proof 1]
Dimensions
plate: 44.9 × 22.7 cm (17 11/16 × 8 15/16 in.) sheet: 56.5 × 33 cm (22 1/4 × 13 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2024.132.426
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...