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ONLINE RESOURCE

The Definitive Sol LeWitt, for Free
The entirety of the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings Catalogue Raisonné (Artifex Press, 2018) is now available for free through the end of July in Artifex Press’s effort to provide access to its catalogues while many libraries and institutions are closed. Register to read this publication.

The Gallery’s Wall Drawing #1081 (above) is part of Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, on view at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, which is preparing to reopen this summer. Share your email with them so they can keep in touch.

EXPLORE THE COLLECTION

It’s About the Idea

Sol LeWitt, American, 1928–2007 Wall Drawing #786A
June 1995

Listen to John Hogan, the Mary Jo and Ted Shen Installation Director and Archivist for Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings, discuss this wall drawing and LeWitt’s work, which is the artist’s idea “executed by the hands of others”—a collaborative effort.

DID YOU KNOW?

A Sol LeWitt Trove

The Gallery is the world’s largest institutional repository of Sol LeWitt wall drawings. It’s also home of the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Archive and Study Center, a unique resource for scholars, conservators, curators, and artists. When the Gallery reopens, access to the archive will again be available by appointment.
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ART AT HOME

The Poetic, Private Art of Surimono
In this short E-Gallery Talk, Sadako Ohki, the Japan Foundation Associate Curator of Japanese Art, discusses two Japanese surimono (a type of deluxe privately published woodblock print that flourished in the early 1800s), including Kubo Shunman’s Two Bullfinches on a Double-Petaled Cherry Tree (detail left) of ca. 1810.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos from our on-going series of E-Gallery Talks and Stories and Art.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT

The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

As the Fourth of July approaches, we remember Lee Friendlander’s remarkable photographs of the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, which took place at the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 1957. The pilgrimage wasn’t as famous as the later March on Washington, but it was a critical moment for civil rights. Friedlander was only 22 when he photographed the event, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. implored the federal government to “give us the ballot” and solidified his leadership of the Civil Rights Movement.

FROM THE COLLECTION

A Unique Piece
of History

In 2015, the Gallery acquired the complete (and only existing) set of Lee Friedlander’s 58 printsdocumenting the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, among them this photograph of a family at the Lincoln Memorial. In 2017, an exhibition of the complete set of prints was organized at the Gallery by La Tanya S. Autry, former Marcia Brady Tucker Senior Fellow, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art.

WATCH

How the Pilgrimage Changed Protests
Watch author William P. Jones, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, talk with Philip McHarris and La Tanya S. Autryabout the roots and organizing methods of the Prayer Pilgrimage for
Freedom and how they led to the renowned March on Washington of 1963. These historic demonstrations continue to inspire activist strategies, including those of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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IN THE MEDIA

Hyperallergic

June 21, 2020
“What We Can Learn from a Vanished Mural of Racist Violence”

The Virginia Gazette

June 24, 2020
“African American History in American Revolution Highlighted in Museum Exhibition”
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