The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

24C

24C

1991
(American, 1928–2007)
Overall: 279.4 x 61.9 x 62.9 cm (110 x 24 3/8 x 24 3/4 in.)
© The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: not on view

Description

Sol LeWitt first expressed his commitment to the theme of "seriality" at the time his work was evolving from its roots in Minimalism to a pioneering Conceptualism. In response to works by peers including Donald Judd and especially Dan Flavin, LeWitt pared his vocabulary to simple geometric forms. Focusing on the cube and square, he fabricated neutral, three-dimensional structures in wood and metal painted pristine white which followed systematic progressions or series based on mathematical sequences. For example, 1 2 3 (1967-2003) manifests all possible variations on three different kinds of cubes. 24C is part of a series LeWitt began in 1962 and continues to produce in various permutations.
  • Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. no. 131, p. 123, color repr. p. 74.
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions to the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection,” August 26, 1994, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 74-75, no. 131
  • Less is More: Minimal Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 16-October 20, 2013).
    The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
  • {{cite web|title=24C|url=false|author=Sol LeWitt|year=1991|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1994.21