Oil-based woodcut. 20 5/8 × 28 5/8 in. (52.3 × 72.6 cm). New Britain Museum of American Art, Gift of Sol LeWitt. © Estate of Sol LeWitt 2025
Etching with aquatint, 30 × 30 in. (76.2 × 76.2 cm). New Britain Museum of American Art, Gift of Sol LeWitt. © Estate of Sol LeWitt 2025
Linocut 28 × 35 1/2 in. New Britain Museum of American Art, Gift of Sol LeWitt © Estate of Sol LeWitt 2025
Linocut. 23 × 23 in. (58.4 × 58.4 cm) New Britain Museum of American Art, Gift of Sol LeWitt. © Estate of Sol LeWitt 2025
Water based woodcut. 16 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (41.3 × 41.3 cm). New Britain Museum of American Art, Gift of Sol LeWitt. © Estate of Sol LeWitt 2025
Beautiful Ideas: The Prints of Sol LeWitt
May 17–October 25, 2026
Regarded as one of the founders of both minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) is best known for his large-scale wall drawings and modular structures. Alongside these works, LeWitt generated more than 350 print projects during his 40-year artistic career, including thousands of lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts, and linocuts. Printmaking proved to be the perfect medium for LeWitt’s brand of conceptual art, in which the “idea becomes a machine that makes the art.” Beautiful Ideas: The Prints of Sol LeWitt explores the artist’s extensive body of prints, beginning with his earliest works and extending through his mature expressions in abstraction. Organized in four thematic sections—”Lines, Arcs, Circles, and Grids,” “Bands and Colors,” “From Geometric Figures to Complex Forms,” and “Wavy, Curvy, Loopy Doopy, and in All Directions”—the exhibition reflects the bold geometric shapes and precise lines that defined LeWitt’s artistic style.
A related scholarly publication, Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints is available, produced in 2020.
This exhibition is made possible, in part, with generous support from:
Platinum Sponsors
Judy and Fred Fiala
Silver Sponsors
Keith Monda and Veronica Brady
Lois Schottenstein