Solomon “Sol” LeWitt is a renowned post-war conceptualist and minimalist artist whose artworks are characterized by monochromatic tones and geometric forms of squares, cubes and lines. Born in Hartford, Connecticut to Russian Jewish parents, LeWitt received his BA in Fine Art at Syracuse University. He then worked as a graphic designer for an architecture firm in New York. In 1960, LeWitt began a night job at the Museum of Modern Art book counter, along with other artists Dan Flavin, Robert Mangold and Robert Ryman who were all searching for a new direction in art amid the increasingly stale ideals of Abstract Expressionism. LeWitt broke away from personal expression and artistic gestures, narratives and descriptive imagery, and began to resolve painting’s flatness by distilling art to its essentials. His refined visual vocabulary features simplified forms, basic vibrant color, pared-down shapes and texture. The images he produced emphasized dimension, repetition, sequence and variation, exemplified by his open grid structures. For large space installations and wall drawings, LeWitt devised and established rules by which his artworks were rendered, and left the actual execution of them to his assistants who follow his instructions. Towards the end of his career, LeWitt pushed beyond straight lines and perpendicular angles, and rendered wavy lines from curvilinear movement and free form strokes.

As a leading figure of minimalism and pioneer of conceptual art, LeWitt has been features in many exhibitions, including the seminal exhibition ‘Primary Structures’ in 1966 at the Jewish Museum, DOCUMENTA IV in 1968, and Harald Szeeman's exhibition 'When Attitude Becomes Form', Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland and Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (1969). He had a major traveling retrospective at the San Franisco Museum of Art and The Whitney in 2000. LeWitt’s work resides in many private and public museum collections, including Tate Collection, London, UK; Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Guggenheim Museum, New York; MoMA, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.