Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. oil on canvas, Jumping 27304

2013.15.1

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Jumping

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Artist

Sol LeWitt (Hartford, Connecticut, 9/9/1928 - 4/8/2007, New York City, New York)

Title

Jumping

Creation Date

ca. 1960

Century

mid-20th century

Dimensions

12 x 10 in. (30.48 x 25.4 cm)

Object Type

painting

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Laura T. and John H. Halford, Jr. Art Acquisition Fund

Copyright

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Accession Number

2013.15.1

As one of the founders of Minimalism and Conceptualism, defining art movements of the second half of the twentieth century, Sol LeWitt is an American artist of the greatest significance. In this early study, recently acquired by the Museum, LeWitt’s diverse sources are clearly visible. The artist identified paintings by Alberto Giacometti and Giorgio Morandi, as well as the photographic studies of movement of Eadweard Muybridge, as important sources of inspiration. Moving away from Abstract Expressionist attitudes, his still lifes sought to “realize” objects on canvas by building thick layers of paint with a palette knife. At the same time, he selected figures from Muybridge’s photographic motion studies to investigate questions of seriality. LeWitt abandoned painting in 1962 and developed his modular art, often based on the cube, in wall drawings, constructions, prints, and drawings.