Wall Drawing #760

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Wall Drawing #760

Artist Sol LeWitt American, 1928-2007

Date1994

DimensionsTMA Peristyle Lower Promenade walls: outer wall (concave arc) H: 9 ft., L: 258 ft. 1/2 in. (7865.1 cm); inner wall (convex arc) H: 9 ft., L: 219 ft 7 1/2 in. (6694.2 cm)

MediumColor ink washes applied to wall primed with white paint; varnished.

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott

Object number

1994.41

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Peristyle Lower Promenade Walls

Collections

Paintings

Published ReferencesNeckers, Pamela, "TMA Highlight: Wall Drawing #760," Montage, vol. 2, no. 8, Nov. 1994, p. 10.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Treasures, Toledo, 1995, p. 184, repr. (col.).

Berkowitz, Roger M., "Selected Acquisitions made by the Toledo Museum of Art, 1990-2001," Burlington, vol. 143, no. 1177, April 2001, p. 264, fig. XXIV (col.).

Label TextThis work of art requires your active participation: it can only be fully seen by walking the length of the curving corridor that connects the Toledo Museum of Art with the Peristyle (the Museum’s concert hall) and with the University of Toledo’s Center for the Visual Arts (CVA). The Museum commissioned Sol LeWitt to create a “wall drawing” specifically for this site. LeWitt visited the Museum and studied the space, taking into account the unique conditions of its curve, length, width, and uses. TMA chose this design from three proposals presented by the artist. Following LeWitt’s diagram and specific color instructions, his assistants drew the composition in pencil directly onto the primed white walls and then rendered it in color using translucent red, yellow, blue, and black artist’s inks. All color variations were achieved by applying layers of these colors rather than by mixing them beforehand. The lively geometry echoes that of the adjoining CVA designed by Frank Gehry, while also evoking the harmonious proportions of the Museum’s neoclassical architecture (LeWitt left untouched the painted classical elements of the crown molding, which echo features of the Peristyle). ©protected by copyright