Untitled (portfolio of 8 screenprints)

Artist Sol LeWitt (American, 1928-2007)

Date1979

DimensionsOverall: 14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm);
Sheet: 18 x 18 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm)

MediumScreenprint

ClassificationPrints

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1981.90A-H

Not on View

Label TextIn this series of eight screen prints, Sol LeWitt explores his favorite themes of system, order, and clarity. The artist infuses his arrangement of squares, straight lines, primary colors, and open and closed forms with his own carefully considered feelings for life and beauty. The prints, like much of LeWitt’s work, illustrate a system, which seems to expand beyond the prints themselves into a spectrum of continuous multiple possibilities. Sol LeWitt is a pioneer of the Minimalist art movement that developed in the 1960s and which emphasized extreme simplification of forms and colors. His work also had a profound influence on Conceptual art of the 1980s, which emphasized ideas rather than objects. He continues to be influential, developing new complex combinations of color, line, and shape (see Wall Drawing #760, in the Peristyle promenade).Published Referencescf. Haags Gemeentemuseum, Sol LeWitt, July 25 - Aug. 30, 1970