# TLDR Sol LeWitt

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Podcast: [Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages](https://stenobird.com/podcast/who-arted-weekly-art-history-for-all-ages-506807)
Published: 2026-06-26T07:10:00+00:00
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Sol LeWitt was a pioneering American artist who played a crucial role in defining the Minimalist and Conceptual art movements. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1928 to Russian immigrant parents, LeWitt pursued his early education in fine arts at Syracuse University before serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Following his military service, he moved to New York City in 1953, where he immersed himself in the shifting art scene, studying at the School of Visual Arts and working as a graphic designer for the architect I.M. Pei. While working at the Museum of Modern Art in 1960 alongside other emerging artists like Dan Flavin and Robert Ryman, LeWitt began to actively reject the emotional subjectivity of Abstract Expressionism. His theories shifted the focus of artmaking from physical craftsmanship to intellectual concept, famously asserting that the idea behind a piece serves as a machine that generates the artwork itself. LeWitt’s revolutionary style took the form of three-dimensional "structures" often utilizing open geometric progressions based on the cube and his famous, large-scale wall drawings. Beginning in 1968, he stopped executing these wall drawings himself, instead authoring sets of instructions and diagrams for assistants or gallery technicians to follow. A prime example of this methodology is Wall Drawing #118, first executed in 1971, which relies on a strict instruction to place 50 random points on a wall and connect them all with straight lines, mathematically yielding exactly 1,225 lines regardless of who installs it. Beyond his independent creative output, LeWitt was deeply integrated into the artistic community as an avid collector, amassing thousands of pieces primarily by trading his own work with contemporaries. He continued his influentia…

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