Wall Drawing #118: 50 randomly placed points connected by straight lines

Contemporary Art

1971

Sol LeWitt
American, 1928-2007

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Sol LeWitt
Title: Wall Drawing #118: 50 randomly placed points connected by straight lines
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 1971
Medium: Black pencil
Dimensions: Dimensions variable
Credit Line: Gift of the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family
Reference Number: 2023.3257

Sol LeWitt, “All Wall Drawings,” Arts Magazine 46, no. 4 (Feb. 1972): 44.
Susanna Singer, ed., Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings, 1968–1984 (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1984), 19, 61, 169, 201.
Dia Beacon, Sol LeWitt Drawing Series…, exh. brochure (Beacon, NY: Dia Beacon, 2006), n.p., cat. 5.
Gross, Béatrice, ed., Sol LeWitt, exh. cat. (Metz, France: Éditions du Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2012) 254.
Lucy R. Lippard, Veronica Roberts, and Kirsten Swenson, Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt, exh. cat. (New Haven: Blanton Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2014), 55.
John Hogan, Benjamin Weil, Sol LeWitt: 17 Wall Drawings, 1970-2015 (Santander Spain: Fundación Botín, 2015), 23, 27, 55, 70, 114 (color ill), 115 (color ill.), 122-123 (color ill.), 124-125 (color ill.), 202-203 (color ills.), 274.

Boston, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Dec. 1971, drawn by Dawn Shifreen, William Sizemore, Gary Snyder, Roger Sutro, David Whittredge, no. cat.
Beacon, NY, Dia: Beacon, Sol LeWitt Drawing Series…, Sept 16, 2006–Nov. 13, 2007, cat. 5.
Boston, Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Something Along Those Lines, Sep. 13–Nov. 3, 2012, drawn by Jesse Good and 20 SMFA Students, no. cat.
Santander, Cantabria, Spain, Fundación Botín, Sol LeWitt: 17 Dibujos Murales, 1970-2015, July 18, 2015-Jan. 10, 2016, no cat. no.

The artist; sold through Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago to Irving Stenn, Chicago, Jan. 1, 1991; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 29, 2023.

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