Wall Drawing #1222 (Scribbles: Curved Horizontal Bands)
Artist/Maker
Sol LeWitt
(American, 1928–2007)
Date2007
MediumBlack graphite pencil on drywall
DimensionsOverall: 22 × 18 ft. (6.71 × 5.49 m)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number2007.5
Status
Not on viewTwo new wall drawings created by LeWitt specifically for the museum's Ellen Johnson Gallery were shown in a 2007 exhibition, Sol LeWitt at the AMAM, along with works on loan from the LeWitt Collection. When LeWitt died at the age of seventy-eight, shortly after the exhibition opened, it became a memorial to the artist and his legacy. One, a graphite "scribble" drawing measuring twenty-two feet high, was a gift from the artist-and among the very last of his wall drawings. As was noted in his obituary in the New York Times, LeWitt gave instructions to teams of people-in Oberlin's case, members of his studio, Oberlin students, community members, and students from other colleges-for such drawings, which took weeks to execute, always giving the teams "wiggle room" and insisting that their input made a vital contribution to the final artwork.
To make this drawing, eleven people worked the equivalent of 101 draftsman days to cover the wall's 396 square feet with graphite. A total of 330 six-inch leads and twenty-eight woodless graphite pencil sticks were used.
Exhibition History
To make this drawing, eleven people worked the equivalent of 101 draftsman days to cover the wall's 396 square feet with graphite. A total of 330 six-inch leads and twenty-eight woodless graphite pencil sticks were used.
Sol Lewitt at the AMAM
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 9, 2007 - July 22, 2007 )
Repeat Performances: Seriality and Systems Art since 1960
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 4, 2007 - February 24, 2008 )
Religion, Ritual, and Performance in Modern and Contemporary Art
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - May 26, 2013 )
Collections
- Modern & Contemporary
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