Sol LeWitt Dies

Sol LeWitt, whose deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings and ecstatically colored and jazzy wall paintings established him as a lodestar of modern American art, died yesterday in New York, writes Michael Kimmelman for the New York Times. He was seventy-eight. The cause was complications from cancer, said Susanna Singer, a longtime associate. LeWitt helped establish Conceptualism and Minimalism as dominant art movements of the postwar era. A patron and friend of colleagues young and old, he was the opposite of the artist as celebrity. He tried to suppress all interest in him as opposed to his work. Irish Art