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Origins
“I wasn’t really that interested in objects. I was interested in Ideas,” Sol LeWitt. This quote summarizes one of the most influential concepts behind Sol LeWitt’s body of work: that the ideas behind a work of art are more important than the physical piece itself. His Wall Drawing Retrospective fully embodies this notion.

The Wall Drawing Retrospective was not his first foray into this medium; in fact, the first wall drawings LeWitt “created” were displayed (in part) in 1968 at Paula Cooper Gallery. This stemmed from LeWitt’s participation in the “Xerox Book” project, which was curated by Seth Siegelaub. Conditions of artistic reproduction were standardized and each of the artists were tasked with instructions / requirements to follow. LeWitt chose to use exclusively line, resulting in 24 variations of line drawings, two of which were selected to be shown at the Paula Cooper Gallery as large-scale reproductions.