“Sol LeWitt, the master of Conceptual and Minimal art who died this week in New York at age 78, was one of the few artists from those movements who caught on fairly early and strongly in Chicago. His ascetic geometrical sculptures and wall drawings could hardly have been expected to overcome a local taste for figurative fantasy art, but overcome it in large measure they did, and he exhibited here more frequently and in greater depth than just about any other East Coast artist who achieved prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s.”