Eight-Pointed Stars
Artist
Sol LeWitt
(American, 1928 - 2007)
CultureAmerican
Date1996
MediumRelief print on tinted handmade paper
DimensionsOverall: 54 x 54 in. (137.2 x 137.2 cm)
InscribedEdition of 15, signed on the back in graphite on lower right panel (blue on blue): Sol LeWitt 1996/9/15
Credit LineGift of Richard and Leah Waitzer, Arthur and Renée Diamonstein, David and Susan Goode, Hank and Dixie Wolf, Peter and Penny Meredith, Jr., Peter and Jeanne Williams, with matching funds from Caterpillar Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation, and partial Museum purchase from the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Art Purchase
Fund
Object number2002.13
Not on view
Label TextSol LeWitt
American, 1928–2007
Eight-Pointed Stars, 1996
Relief print on tinted handmade paper
Gift of Richard and Leah Waitzer, Arthur and Renée Diamonstein, David and Susan Goode, Hank and Dixie Wolf, Peter and Penny Meredith, Jr., Peter and Jeanne Williams, with matching funds from Caterpillar Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation, and partial Museum purchase from the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Art Purchase Fund 2002.13
ProvenanceTwo Palms Press, 1996-2002; Gift of Richard and Leah Waitzer, Arthur and Renée Diamonstein, David and Susan Goode, Hank and Dixie Wolf, Peter and Penny Meredith, Jr., Peter and Jeanne Williams, with matching funds from Caterpillar Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation to the Chrysler Museum of Art, September 2002.
Exhibition History"Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press," Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, Ct., Feb. 2 - Apr. 1, 2001; The Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, Ny., July 12 - Sept. 16, 2001; Meadows Museums, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex., Oct. 22 - Dec. 8, 2001; University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ma., Feb. 2 - Mar. 15, 2002; Kent State University Art Gallery, Kent, Oh., Sept. 4 - Sept. 28, 2002.
Published ReferencesMartha Drexler Lynn, _Sculpture, Glass, and American Museums_ (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 36-43.
