Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing 552D
Thu, Jun 12
|The Morgan Library & Museum
A masterwork that never ends the same way twice—Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing 552D invites viewers into a living conversation between form, color, and the wall itself.
Time & Location
Jun 12, 2025, 7:00 AM – Jun 12, 2032, 11:00 PM
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA
About the event
Event Overview
Now on ongoing view in the soaring Gilbert Court at The Morgan Library & Museum, Wall Drawing 552D by Sol LeWitt exemplifies the artist’s radical rethinking of drawing as both conceptual instruction and physical expression. First executed in 1987 and gifted to the Morgan by the LeWitt family, this iconic work continues to challenge our perception of space, flatness, and authorship.
Why It’s Essential Viewing:Wall Drawing 552D explores what LeWitt once described as a “not quite a cube”—a tilted illusion that oscillates between flatness and volume. Framed by bold eight-inch black borders, the central figure feels simultaneously architectural and ephemeral. Its color ink washes bring subtle motion to what is, by definition, a still form.
But the genius of LeWitt’s work lies in its impermanence and reproducibility. The drawing itself is temporary; it can be painted over, and reborn elsewhere, according to LeWitt’s original instructions. In doing so, it raises powerful…