When the LeWitts returned to the United States at the decade's end, they chose to live in the small Connecticut town of Chester, about 30 miles southeast of where he had grown up. He is survived by his wife and their two daughters: Sofia, who works at New York's Paula Cooper Gallery; and Eva, a student at Bard College who was named for his late friend, artist Eva Hesse.
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Sol LeWitt, 78; sculptor and muralist changed art
Obituaries
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Wednesday April 18, 2007 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 51 words Type of Material: Correction
LeWitt obituary: In the April 10 California section, a caption with the obituary of Sol LeWitt said a photo that showed the artist with a wall work was taken at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The photograph was taken at the Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles.
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LeWitt was widely respected in the art community for his unstinting support of other artists, both famous and obscure. He helped found Printed Matter in 1976, a Manhattan repository for artists' books, and he later donated many examples to the Wadsworth Athenaeum's library. His Chester studio is home to an art collection of several thousand works, which he acquired through exchange and purchase over the years.
In 2004, LeWitt began discussions with the Yale University Art Gallery about committing a large number of wall drawings and his archive to the teaching museum. That arrangement led to plans for a long-term exhibition, "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective," which will feature 50 monumental works created between 1968 and 2007 and will be shown in an abandoned factory building being refurbished at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.
The show is scheduled to open in October 2008, on the 40th anniversary of LeWitt's first wall drawing.
christopher.knight@latimes.com
