Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective
A collaboration between Yale University Art Gallery, MASS MoCA, and the Williams College Museum of Art
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Wall Drawing 56
A square is divided horizontally and vertically into four equal parts, each with lines in four directions superimposed progressively.
August 1970
Black pencil
LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut
First Installation
LeWitt residence, New York
First Drawn By
Sol LeWitt
MASS MoCA Building 7
Ground Floor
Sol LeWitt’s early wall drawings were based on finite series of what he termed “simple” lines (lines drawn in one of four basic directions: vertical, horizontal, diagonal left, and diagonal right), as well as “superimposed” lines (the four simple lines layered on top of each other). By superimposing the lines in a sequential manner, as seen in Wall Drawing 56, the artist produced progressively darker gradations of tone.
