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“LeWitt first encountered some of the artists he collected through day jobs. He was introduced to [Eva] Hesse in the late 1950s presumably at a work party organized by the architect I.M. Pei’s office, where LeWitt was then employed. In the early 1960s, he met Beery, Flavin, Scott Burton, Robert Mangold, and Robert Ryman at The Museum of Modern Art where they all had “flunky jobs,” to quote Lucy Lippard, who herself worked at the museum’s library; LeWitt was at the night desk.” – Béatrice Gross, exhibition co-curator, from LeWitt catalog Dan Flavin’s “untitled (to dear durable Sol from Stephen, Sonja, and Dan)”, 1969 was installed our Drawing Room gallery this morning. Opening April 15, “Drawing Dialogues: Selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection” is an exhibition featuring over 100 works by more than 60 artists from the renowned artist’s extraordinary collection. It is the first large-scale exhibition of the collection to be held in New York in over 30 years. Evening Opening April ...

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