
Wall Drawing #274: The location of six geometric figures (the specific locations are determined by the draftsman)
Sol LeWitt · 1975
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold through Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 9, 2006.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Copenhagen, Gentofte Kommunes Kunstbibliotek, Sept. 1975, drawn by Sol LeWitt and Steingrim Lauresn, no cat.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Sol LeWitt, Feb. 3–Apr. 4, 1978, not in cat.; Montreal, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Sept. 7–Oct. 22, 1978; Champaign, IL Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Mar. 4–Apr. 8, 1979; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, June 8–Aug. 12, 1979; La Jolla, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sept. 16–Nov. 4, 1979.
- North Adams, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, Nov. 16, 2008–2033, no cat. no.
- Metz, France, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Sol LeWitt: Dessons muraux de 1968 à 2007, Mar. 7, 2012–July 29, 2013 (extended to Aug. 12, 2013), cat. 50.
- Reykjavik, Iceland, Reykjavik Art Museum Hafnarhús, Sol LeWitt, Feb. 13–May, 24, 2020, cat. 7.
Literature
Published references
- Susanna Singer, ed., Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings, 1968–1984 (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1984), 80, cat. 274 (ill); 96; 186.
- Gary Garrels, ed., Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, with essays by Martin Friedman, Andrea Miller-Keller, Brenda Richardson, Anne Rorimer, John S. Weber, and Adam D. Weinberg, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 43.
- Susan Cross and Denise Markonish, eds. Sol LeWitt: 100 Views, exh. cat. (North Adams, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2009), 14, 15-17, 60, 157 (color ill.), 244.
- Béatrice Gross, ed., Sol LeWitt, trans. Natasha Edwards and Miriam Rosen, exh. cat. (Metz: Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2012), 22; 81; 134, cat. 50 (color ill.).
- Lindsay Aveilhé, Sol LeWitt, exh. brochure (Reykjavik: Reykjavik Art Museum Hafnarhús, 2020), n.p., cat. 7.
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