Cooling Tower, Caerphilly, South Wales, Great Britain
Bernd and Hilla Becher German
Bernd Becher German
Hilla Becher German
Not on view
The American sculptor Sol LeWitt was a notable collector of the work of artists he admired, including those with whom he may not have had an obvious affinity. Here, however, in this rigidly frontal study of a Welsh cooling tower with a geometrically precise exoskeleton of cross braces, it is not hard to see what might have been the attraction. LeWitt owned this photograph for some fifty years; it came to The Met after his death as a generous gift of his family.
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