© Sol LeWitt/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Currently not on view
Black Bands in Two Directions, from the portfolio BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music),
1990
Sol LeWitt, 1928–2007; born Hartford, CT; died New York, NY; active New York
Printed by Watanabe Studio
Printed by Parasol Press, Ltd.
Printed by Watanabe Studio
Printed by Parasol Press, Ltd.
x1993-243
Echoing the spare composition and logic of his sculptures, LeWitt’s woodcut engages the reductionist mandate of Minimalism, in which a predetermined modular element governs the execution and resulting structure of the work. LeWitt pares down the printed image to a series of basic formal juxtapositions—line and space, foreground and background, light and dark—using the contrasts between these elements to determine the overall composition of the work.
Information
Title
Black Bands in Two Directions, from the portfolio BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Dates
1990
Maker
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
image: 70.9 × 76.1 cm (27 15/16 × 29 15/16 in.)
sheet: 81 × 86.5 cm (31 7/8 × 34 1/16 in.)
frame: 100 × 100 × 3.8 cm (39 3/8 × 39 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of James Kraft, Class of 1957
Object Number
x1993-243
Place Made
North America, United States, New York, Brooklyn, New York
Inscription
Signed and numbered in graphite, lower right: LeWitt 7//75
Culture
Materials
Techniques
Subject
Black Bands in Two Directions
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1993", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 53, no. 1 (1994): p. 46-95., p. 84
- "Contemporary Prints and Photographs: Selections from the Collection of James Kraft, Class of 1957" (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1998)., cat. no. 95 (illus.)
- Calvin Brown, "James Kraft, Class of 1957, Collection," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 66 (2007): p. 75–122., p. 79
