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Wall Drawing #1222 (Scribbles: Curved Horizontal Bands)

Artist/Maker (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 view
Copyright© Estate of Sol LeWitt / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NYMore Information
Two 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
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