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Sol LeWitt
Wall Drawing #295: Six Superimposed Geometric Figures1976

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Abstract drawing with thin white geometric lines on black — inscribed circle, square, vertical dividers, and crossing diagonals
Drawing with fine white lines on black ground: a large square contains a circle of nearly equal height, overlaid with diagonal and triangular lines creating intersecting geometric forms.

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #295: Six Superimposed Geometric Figures, 1976, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with matching funds of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Modern and Contemporary Art Council, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Sol LeWitt
United States, Connecticut, Hartford, 1928-2007
Title
Wall Drawing #295: Six Superimposed Geometric Figures
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1976
Medium
White crayon on black wall
Credit Line
Purchased with matching funds of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Modern and Contemporary Art Council
Accession Number
M.76.103
Classification
Conceptual Art
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Zelevansky, Lynn, V. L. Hillings, M. Peternák, B. LaBelle, P. Frank, I. Katzenstein, A. Le Blanc. Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
  • Gross, Béatrice. 2012. Sol LeWitt. Metz: Centre Pompidou-Metz.
  • Roberts, Veronica. ""Like a musical score": variability and multiplicity in Sol LeWitt's 1970s wall drawings." Master Drawings 50, no.2 (2012): 193-210.
Copyright
© Sol LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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