The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Wall-sized color ink wash painting at the center of which three sides of a cube are visible, the upper side pink, the left yellow, and the right green in front of a solid, vibrant blue background. The bottom corner of the cube cuts off where the painting meets the floor.

Wall Drawing 590A

1989

Sol LeWitt

(American, 1928–2007)
America
color ink wash
Overall: 543.6 x 1240.8 cm (214 x 488 1/2 in.)
Gift of the LeWitt Family in honor of Agnes Gund 2012.66
© The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: 224A Contemporary Corridor

Did You Know?

This artist creates instructions that the museum follows to complete this work.

Description

From the 1980s onward a variety of simple geometric shapes emerge as autonomous motifs in Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings. By 1982 he had transformed planar figures into three-dimensional objects, playfully experimenting with repetition and the opposition between the two-dimensional plane and the drawn perspective. That same year he started to use ink washes for his wall drawings. LeWitt once said, "I would like to produce something I would not be ashamed to show Giotto." This statement clearly resounds in the luminosity and sensuality of surface of Wall Drawing #590A.
  • 2012 -
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, a gift from the artist’s family
  • Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 02, March/April 2013 Mentioned and reproduced: p. 10-11 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 122
  • Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (January 1989)
  • {{cite web|title=Wall Drawing 590A|url=false|author=Sol LeWitt|year=1989|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.66