Loops & Curves Blue/Red
1999
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View on museum website →Medium
color sugarlift aquatint with aquatint on Somerset textured paper
Dimensions
image: 90.8 x 56.5 cm (35 3/4 x 22 1/4 in.) sheet: 101.6 x 67.3 cm (40 x 26 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2001.142.62
Art Historical Context
Sol LeWitt's *Loops & Curves Blue/* (1999) exemplifies the artist's late-career evolution within Conceptual and Minimalist art. A pioneer of instruction-based works in the 1960s, LeWitt shifted toward fluid, organic geometries in his later prints, departing from rigid grids to embrace looping curves that dance across the composition in vibrant blues and reds. This color sugarlift aquatint, in the National Gallery of, captures his fascination with seriality and variation—hallmarks of his practice that invited viewers to engage with process as much as product. Printed on luxurious Somerset text...
About the Artist
Sol LeWitt
Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (1928–2007) was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents; his father, a doctor and inventor, died when Sol was six, after which he lived with his mother, a nurse, and an aunt in New Britain. His mother enrolled him in art classes at the Wadsworth Atheneum, fostering his early interest in drawing. LeWitt earned a BFA from Syracuse University in 1949, w...