Sol LeWitt, Modular Base, 1967/1972
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Modular Base, 1967/1972
Painted wood
2 × 45 ½ × 45 ½ in. (5.1 × 114.9 × 114.9 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of the Collectors Group, Men’s Council, and Women’s Board, Young/Hoffman Gallery, and National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Grant, 1978.60.2
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Modular Base, 1967/1972
Painted wood
2 × 45 ½ × 45 ½ in. (5.1 × 114.9 × 114.9 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of the Collectors Group, Men’s Council, and Women’s Board, Young/Hoffman Gallery, and National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Grant, 1978.60.2
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Modular Base, 1967/1972
Painted wood
2 × 45 ½ × 45 ½ in. (5.1 × 114.9 × 114.9 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of the Collectors Group, Men’s Council, and Women’s Board, Young/Hoffman Gallery, and National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Grant, 1978.60.2
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Modular Base, 1967/1972
Painted wood
2 × 45 ½ × 45 ½ in. (5.1 × 114.9 × 114.9 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of the Collectors Group, Men’s Council, and Women’s Board, Young/Hoffman Gallery, and National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Grant, 1978.60.2
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Modular Base, 1967/1972
Painted wood
2 × 45 ½ × 45 ½ in. (5.1 × 114.9 × 114.9 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of the Collectors Group, Men’s Council, and Women’s Board, Young/Hoffman Gallery, and National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Grant, 1978.60.2
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

Modular Base, 1967/1972
Painted wood
2 × 45 ½ × 45 ½ in. (5.1 × 114.9 × 114.9 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of the Collectors Group, Men’s Council, and Women’s Board, Young/Hoffman Gallery, and National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Grant, 1978.60.2
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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- Sol LeWitt, Bands of Color in Four Directions (Vertical), 1995
- Short A tall rectangle is divided into four vertical panels made with the same thick black lines that frame it. Each panel is filled with six to ten colored stripes that run, from top to bottom panels, vertically, horizontally, diagonally slanting up and right, diagonally slanting down and right.
- Sol LeWitt, Pyramid #9, 1986
- Short A white prism sculpture sits against a white background.
- Sol LeWitt, Cock Fight Dance, 1980
- Short The words "COCK FIGHT DANCE" are printed in very large, bold black letters on a solid white square.
- Sol LeWitt, Geometric Figures and Color, 1979
- Short The words "GEOMETRIC FIGURES & COLOR SOL LEWITT" are printed in black, sans serif letters on a square white surface.
- Sol LeWitt, Open Geometric Structures: Five Geometric Structures and their Combinations, 1979
- Short A wide white canvas has nothing on it except the phrase "OPEN GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES" above the text "SOL LEWITT 1979," both printed in black text.
- Sol LeWitt, Five Cubes on Twenty-five Squares, 1978
- Short The words "FIVE CUBES ON TWENTY-FIVE SQUARES" are printed in large black letters on a solid white square.
- Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing No. 311: Square, Circle, and Triangle on Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1978
- Short An interior wall of a building is painted in three colored sections. From left to right, a red section contains a square, a yellow section contains a circle, and a blue section contains a triangle.
- Sol LeWitt, Brick Wall, 1977
- Short A white canvas has the words "BRICK WALL" in a thick typeface printed in the center.
- Sol LeWitt, Geometric Figures within Geometric Figures, 1976
- Short The words "GEOMETRIC FIGURES WITHIN GEOMETRIC FIGURES" are printed in bold black letters on a white square.
- Sol LeWitt, Modular Drawings, 1976
- Short The words "MODULAR DRAWINGS SOL LEWITT 1976" are printed in black letters in the center of a white square.
- Sol LeWitt, Arcs and Lines, 1974
- Short The words "ARCS AND LINES" are printed in large, dark gray letters on an ivory colored square.