Wall Drawing #274: The location of six geometric figures (the specific locations are determined by the draftsman)

Courtesy of MASS MoCA, photo by Kevin Kennefick.

1975

Sol LeWitt
American, 1928-2007

Status: Currently Off View

Artist: Sol LeWitt
Title: Wall Drawing #274: The location of six geometric figures (the specific locations are determined by the draftsman)
Place: United States (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1975
Medium: Black pencil and crayon
Dimensions: 243.9 × 609.6 cm (96 × 240 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior gifts of Judith Neisser and Mary and Leigh Block; Norman Waite Harris Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 2006.166
Copyright: © 2008 The Estate of Sol LeWitt

Alicia Legg, ed., Sol LeWitt, with essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Bernice Rose, and Robert Rosenblum, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1978), not in cat.
Sol LeWitt and Susanna Singer, 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.
Béatrice Gross, ed., Sol LeWitt , trans. Natasha Edwards and Miriam Rosen, exh. cat. (Metz: Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2012), 22; 81; 134, cat. 50.

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, not in cat.
North Adams, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, Nov. 16, 2008–2033, no cat.
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Sol LeWitt: Dessons muraux de 1968 à 2007, Mar. 7–July 29, 2013 (extended to Aug. 12, 2013), cat. 50 (ill.).

The artist; sold through Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 9, 2006.

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