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A long wall is painted with from floor to ceiling with black borders to create four squares, each of which is filled with colorful, vertical, horizontal, or diagonal stripes. The stripes are all the same width, and are painted in slighly mottled colors to create a sense of texture. In this photograph, we are to the left so the wall moves a bit away from us to our right. The ceiling and floor are both light pink stone or concrete, and a row of recessed lights in the ceiling near the wall shines lights onto the paintings there. The left-most square has vertical stripes in daffodil yellow, amber, gold, laurel green, and one caramel-brown stripe. The second square has horizontal bands. Along the top is a stripe of dusty rose, and then stripes in lemon yellow, faded blue, white, muted, amber, laurel green, mauve pink, another lemon yellow, and caramel brown. The third square has diagonal lines that reach from the bottom left corner to the upper right. These stripes are in warm shades of pumpkin orange, lavender, light brown, scarlet, brick red, mauve, dusty rose, and plum purple. The fourth square has diagonal bands going in the opposite direction, from bottom right to top left. Those stripes are in cool tones of denim, steel, and azure blue; pine, sage, and spring green; and peanut brown.

Sol LeWitt

Wall Drawing No. 681 C / A wall divided vertically into four equal squares separated and bordered by black bands. Within each square, bands in one of four directions, each with color ink washes superimposed., 1993

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Medium

colored ink washes

Dimensions

image (size of installed drawing): 304.8 x 1127.8 cm (120 x 444 in.)

Credit Line

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

Accession Number

1993.41.1

Artists / Makers

Sol LeWitt (artist) American, 1928 - 2007

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Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Vogel, New York, NY; gift to NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Vogel, Herbert, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1994: From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 52, as Wall Drawing No. 681 C. A wall divided vertically into four equal squares separated and bordered by black....

2000: Sol LeWitt a retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2000-2001. (NGA object on display in East Building was not lent; the concept/design/instructions to reprodu)

Bibliography

1994: From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 52.

1999: Ellis,Estelle, Caroline Seebohm and Christopher Simon Sykes. At Home with Art: How Art Lovers Live with and Care for Their Treasures. New York, 1999: repro.

2000: Sol Lewitt: A Retrospective. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2000-2001: 4-5.