On a Blue Ceiling, Eight Geometric Figures: Circle, Trapezoid, Parallelogram, Rectangle, Square, Triangle, Right Triangle, X (Wall Drawing No. 351)
Sol LeWitt, American, 1928 - 2007
Geography:
Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Date:
1981Medium:
Wall drawing (Chalk and latex paint on plaster)Dimensions:
15 feet 6 inches × 54 feet 7 inches (472.4 × 1663.7 cm)Copyright:
© 2016 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Curatorial Department:
Contemporary Art
1982-121-1a,bCredit Line:
Purchased with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and with funds contributed by Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. N. Richard Miller, Mrs. Donald A. Petrie, Eileen and Peter Rosenau, Mrs. Adolf Schaap, Frances and Bayard Storey, Marion Boulton Stroud, and two anonymous donors (by exchange), with additional funds from Dr. and Mrs. William Wolgin, the Daniel W. Dietrich Foundation, and the Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982
Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Date:
1981Medium:
Wall drawing (Chalk and latex paint on plaster)Dimensions:
15 feet 6 inches × 54 feet 7 inches (472.4 × 1663.7 cm)Copyright:
© 2016 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Curatorial Department:
Contemporary Art
* Gallery 174, Modern and Contemporary Art, first floor (Tuttleman Gallery)
Accession Number:1982-121-1a,bCredit Line:
Purchased with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and with funds contributed by Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. N. Richard Miller, Mrs. Donald A. Petrie, Eileen and Peter Rosenau, Mrs. Adolf Schaap, Frances and Bayard Storey, Marion Boulton Stroud, and two anonymous donors (by exchange), with additional funds from Dr. and Mrs. William Wolgin, the Daniel W. Dietrich Foundation, and the Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982
Label:
LeWitt never touched this ceiling; there is nothing of his handcraft in its production. Rather, what was important to him was the idea--he was an early pioneer of conceptual art. In 1982, the Philadelphia Museum of Art purchased this wall drawing, which means simply that the Museum owns the idea and the right to execute it or to erase it and to allow others to do so, as expressed in a certificate signed by the artist. LeWitt provided the description that is the work's title and specified directions (how many coats and what brand of paint, for example), but the execution of the wall drawing was left to the hands of others.
LeWitt never touched this ceiling; there is nothing of his handcraft in its production. Rather, what was important to him was the idea--he was an early pioneer of conceptual art. In 1982, the Philadelphia Museum of Art purchased this wall drawing, which means simply that the Museum owns the idea and the right to execute it or to erase it and to allow others to do so, as expressed in a certificate signed by the artist. LeWitt provided the description that is the work's title and specified directions (how many coats and what brand of paint, for example), but the execution of the wall drawing was left to the hands of others.
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