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Sol LeWitt

1928 - 2007

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Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred to "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, installation, and artist's books. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sol LeWitt has received more than 910,766 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Sol LeWitt is the 550th most popular painter (down from 488th in 2019), the 1,741st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,687th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Sol LeWitt ranks 550 out of 2,023. Before him are Guido of Siena, Charles Gleyre, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Willem Kalf, Albert Bierstadt, and Edmund Leighton. After him are Carlo Maratta, Pietro Longhi, Yoshitoshi, Ivan Bilibin, Margaret Keane, and Théophile Steinlen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Sol LeWitt ranks 103. Before him are Michel Serrault, Vladimir Beara, Arman, James Earl Ray, Ida Haendel, and Georgy Dobrovolsky. After him are Seymour Papert, Torben Ulrich, Daniel Nathans, Fats Domino, Takeshi Inoue, and Malcolm Glazer. Among people deceased in 2007, Sol LeWitt ranks 60. Before him are Robert Adler, Ian Smith, Magda Szabó, Jaan Kross, Abbé Pierre, and Ettore Sottsass. After him are Jean-Pierre Vernant, Jupp Derwall, Joe Zawinul, Colin McRae, Marcheline Bertrand, and Yvonne De Carlo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sol LeWitt ranks 1,741 out of 20,380. Before him are Alan Greenspan (1926), Mitch McConnell (1942), Hiram Bingham III (1875), Joe Satriani (1956), Sammy Davis Jr. (1925), and Ving Rhames (1959). After him are Henry Ford II (1917), John Fogerty (1945), Barbara Bel Geddes (1922), Martin Rodbell (1925), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), and Stephen Lang (1952).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Sol LeWitt ranks 15. Before him are Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), Joseph Kosuth (1945), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Bob Ross (1942), and Lyonel Feininger (1871). After him are Margaret Keane (1927), Jasper Johns (1930), Frank Stella (1936), Carl Andre (1935), John Frederick Kensett (1816), and Thomas Eakins (1844).

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