Cooling Tower, Caerphilly, South Wales, Great Britain
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Cooling Tower, Caerphilly, South Wales, Great Britain
- Artist: Bernd and Hilla Becher (German, active 1959–2007)
- Artist: Bernd Becher (German, 1931–2007)
- Artist: Hilla Becher (German, 1934–2015)
- Date: 1966
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 14 5/8 × 11 3/4 in. (37.1 × 29.9 cm)
Frame: 18 3/4 × 15 5/8 × 1 1/4 in. (47.6 × 39.7 × 3.2 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of the LeWitt Family, in memory of Bernd and Hilla Becher, 2018
- Object Number: 2018.618.1
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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