Sol LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s for his wall drawings and modular "structures" made of materials like aluminum and steel. His use of open, cubic forms originated from the cube shape, which influenced his artistic thinking from early on. Over time, he transitioned from closed wooden box-like sculptures to revealing the skeletal structures underneath by removing surfaces altogether. One of LeWitt's influential modular structures is in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art.

1. Sol LeWitt
“Structures”

2. LeWitt came to
fame in the late
1960s with his wall
drawings and
"structures" (a
term he preferred
instead of
"sculptures").

3. The Toledo
Museum of
art has one of
Sol’s
“structures” in
its collection.

4. His use of open, modular
structures originates from
the cube.

5. Cube-A box-shaped solid object that has six
identical square faces.
A cube has 6 square faces.
A cube has 8 points (vertices).
A cube has 12 edges.
A square is in many ways like a cube, only in two
dimensions rather than three.

6. The cube was a
form that
influenced the
artist’s thinking
from the time that
he first became an
artist.

7. At first he created
closed forms that
looked like wooden
boxes wooden objects

8. In the 1960s he “decided to remove the skin altogether
and reveal the structure.”

10. This skeletal
form, the
radically
simplified open
cube, became
a basic building
block of the
artist’s threedimensional
work

12. Many of his works are large scale and constructed in
aluminum or steel.

16. Sol Le Witt
“Structures”
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