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Untitled (Cube)

1998

Sol LeWitt

(American, 1928–2007)
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Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 26.7 x 26.7 cm (10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.); Paper: 27.9 x 27.9 cm (11 x 11 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1998.106
Copyright
© The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Conceived with exacting precision, these twelve photographs reveal the progressive expansion of a white cube in a black void. The cube has been an important element in LeWitt's visual vocabulary throughout his career. He has repeatedly investigated its sculptural possibilities and its role as a modular unit (the museum's collection includes one of the artist's sculptures based on repeated cubes, 24C, of 1991, on view in gallery 239). In these images he systematically explored the shape in two-dimensional form, beginning with a tiny cube suspended in a dark, undefined space. With each succeeding photograph, the cube appears to advance and become proportionately larger. The sequence ends with a cropped close-up of a corner of the cube—seen as three distinct fields of gray, black, and white. A distinguished painter, sculptor, muralist, and printmaker, Sol LeWitt has long used photography to record his visual ideas. In all the media he uses, he explores repetition of form and the refinement of visual perception.
A square gelatin silver print, encased in a wide black wooden frame, features a small three-dimensional cube centered on a solid black field. The cube's visible facets create a sharp grayscale gradient: a light gray top, white right face, and dark gray left face. This minimalist composition uses stark tonal contrasts and precise geometric lines to isolate a solitary shape within the expansive, dark background.

Untitled (Cube)

1998

Sol LeWitt

(American, 1928–2007)
America

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