Sol LeWitt


Selected Bibliography
Krauss, Rosalind E. "LeWitt in Progress." October, no. 6 (Fall 1978), pp. 46–60. Sol LeWitt. Ed. Alicia Legg. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1978. Essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Bernice Rose, and Robert Rosenblum. Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings 1984–1992. Bern: Kunsthalle, 1992. Text by Ulrich Loock. Sol LeWitt. Structures 1962–93. Oxford: The Museum of Modern Art, 1993. Texts by David Batchelor, David Elliott, Chrissie Iles, and Rosalind E. Krauss. Sol LeWitt: Critical Texts. Ed. Adachiara Zevi. Rome: Libri de AEIOU, 1995. Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective. Ed. Gary Garrels. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000. Texts by Martin Friedman, Andrea Miller-Keller, Brenda Richardson, Anne Rorimer, John S. Weber, and Adam D. Weinberg.


Biography
Sol LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1928, and attended Syracuse University. After serving in the Korean War as a graphic artist, he moved, in 1953, to New York, where he worked as a draftsman for the architect I. M. Pei. LeWitt had his first solo exhibition at the Daniels Gallery, New York, in 1965, and the following year Dwan Gallery, New York, mounted the first in a series of solo exhibitions. He participated, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, in several significant group exhibitions of Minimalist and Conceptual art, including "Primary Structures," at the Jewish Museum, New York, in 1966, and "When Attitude Becomes Form," at the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, in 1969. His renowned text "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art" was published in 1967. LeWitt's work was included in Documentas 6 (1977) and 7 (1982) in Kassel, as well as the 1987 Skulptur Projekte in Münster and the 1989 Istanbul Biennial. Major retrospectives of his works were organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1978, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in 2000. "Drawing Series..." a presentation of LeWitt's early wall drawings was installed at Dia:Beacon in 2006. Sol LeWitt died on April 8, 2007 in New York City.