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Sol LeWitt
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Ensign-Bickford 1936–2011
A
DRIFTLESS CONNECTICUT
SERIES BOOK
This book is a 2019 selection in the
Driftless Connecticut Series, for an
outstanding book in any field on a
Connecticut topic or written by a
Connecticut author.
Sol LeWitt
A LIFE OF IDEAS
LARY BLOOM
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Middletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown CT 06459
© 2019 Lary Bloom
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Designed by Rich Hendel
Typeset in Utopia and Owen fonts by
Passumpsic Publishing
The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the
Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund
at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request
Hardcover ISBN: 978–0-8195–7868–6
Ebook ISBN: 978–0-8195–7870–9
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Front cover illustration: Sol LeWitt in his Hester Street Studio, August 1969 by Jack Robinson, courtesy of the Hulton Archive and Getty Images.
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CONTENTS
16. THE WORK OF A LIFETIME / 282
Illustrations 138
INTRODUCTION
In June 2011, four years after Sol LeWitt’s death, Vanity Fair published a short piece that became a call to biographical action. A photograph
