Short, Vertical Brushstrokes
1997
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View on museum website →Medium
color sugarlift aquatint on Somerset textured white paper
Dimensions
plate: 30.2 x 15.2 cm (11 7/8 x 6 in.) sheet: 57.2 x 38.1 cm (22 1/2 x 15 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2001.142.65
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...