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Sol LeWitt

Artist

Born: 1928

Sol LeWitt (9 September 1928 – 8 April 2007) is considered one of the most important artists to have emerged from the Minimal and Conceptual art movements. Since 1960, LeWitt has worked in a variety of media including sculpture, drawing (both on paper and walls), prints, and photography. He helped establish Conceptual Art and Minimalism of the post war era, creating drawings and structures (a term that the artist preferred to sculpture) by reducing art to the most basic shapes and colors. LeWitt has been included in numerous museum exhibitions, including the Tate Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MASS MoCA, Massachusetts; Museum of Modern Art, New York, and UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.