‘Not Another One Like This Anywhere:’ Trinity’s Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Shines after Restoration
A striking and colorful piece of art on the Trinity College campus underwent a thorough restoration this summer. The two-sided, two-story-tall wall drawing by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, “Wall Drawing #849: Irregular Blobs of Color, 1998,” located in the Cornelia Center has been repainted and refinished, 28 years after its installation. “This is the single most important artwork on the Trinity campus,” said Alden R. Gordon ’69, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts, Emeritus. “Sol LeWitt is in every textbook on modern art; he’s one of the most important American artists of the late 20th century. Trinity has a very bold and very distinctive example of his work, because it’s actually two surfaces which constitute one work of art—one concave, one convex, fitting in with each other.”
