Black - Blue, from "Sixteen Lithographs in Color" / Sol LeWitt

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Accession Number
1978/2.61.9
Title
Black - Blue, from "Sixteen Lithographs in Color"
Artist
Sol LeWitt
Artist Nationality
American
Artist Life Dates
1928-2007
Medium and Support
lithograph on Italia paper
Object Creation Date
1971
Object Creation Place
North and Central America (continent)
United States (nation)
Creation Place 2
United States (nation)
Style/Group/Movement
Conceptual art
Inscription
Signed in pencil, lower right: LeWitt; l.l.: 6/50 On verso stamp of publisher and publisher's number in pencil
Dimensions
58.4 cm x 58.4 cm (23 in. x 23 in.)
Century
20th century
Primary Object Classification
Print
Primary Object Type
offset lithograph
Physical Description
A suite of 15 lithographs and a composite gage in four colors hand drawn on aluminum plates and printed from those plates by hand. Printed in an edition of 50 on Italia paper by Landfall Press, Inc. Size: 23 x 23”. Contained in a paper box designed by Sol LeWitt with the cooperation of Service Bindery of Chicago, Ill.
Subject Matter
a square formed by a mass of randomly distributed but densely packed black horizontal and blue diagonal lines, all approx one-inch in length
Primary Keywords
abstraction
Secondary Keywords
genres
modern and contemporary art
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Image Size
2363 x 2355
File Size
741 KB
Record
1978/2.61.9
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"Black - Blue, from "Sixteen Lithographs in Color"; Sol LeWitt." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1978-sl-2.61.9/1978_2_61_9.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.
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