Sol Lewitt, the American geometric artist, has died at age 78 due to cancer. Lewitt had a career spanning over five decades, in which he produced hundreds of designs of widely varied materials in even more widely varied scales, from wall designs of hundreds of square feet to tiny models of geometric sculptures both realized and conceptual.

Personally, I was introduced to Lewitt through the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago during the summer of 2000, and saw his later exhibitions in Katonah, NY in 2004 and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 2005. He quickly became my favorite contemporary artist due to his methodical approach to construction, his somewhat wry sense of installation, and with respect to his larger-scale designs, his love of bold bands of color.

For more, please do visit his Wikipedia entry at [link]