Sol LeWitt (American, born September 9, 1928 in Hartford - died April 8, 2007 in New York) is known as a founding member of both conceptual and minimalist art. LeWitt attended the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in his Connecticut hometown of Hartford, and later received his BFA from Syracuse University. After serving in the U.S. Army in Korea, he moved to New York in the early 1950s, took courses in illustration and worked as a graphic designer for several magazines and the architect I.M. Pei. In the 1960s, LeWitt began to use the cube and create two- and three-dimensional works, whose form varies according to systems based on language, mathematics and other structures. LeWitt began to exhibit his work regularly as a leader of the emerging group of minimalist artists. His work includes sculptures based on the cube and also in the late 1960s 'wall drawings' in which he draws lines along the gallery walls in pencil, first vertically and horizontally, and then complex structures of circles and arcs painted in colour with the help of his assistants. LeWitt's work also reflects his interest in repetition and serial works, which he frequently uses as a means of conveying the passage of time or a story. In addition to his sculptures, drawings and two-dimensional works, LeWitt creates several artists' books and co-founds the organisation Printed Matter, which publishes and distributes artists' books to a wide audience. Solo exhibitions of LeWitt's work have been held at MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, MoMA in San Francisco, the Tate Gallery in London and the Stedelijik Museum in Amsterdam, among others. His work was also shown at several documenta in Kassel, Germany, and at several exhibitions at the Venice Biennale. LeWitt died in New York in 2007 at the age of 87.