“Ideas cannot be owned. They belong to whomever understands them.”–Sol LeWitt

The Courant reports:

Sol LeWitt, a Hartford-born artist known as one of America’s most significant visual artists of the past four decades, died this morning in New York City at the age of 78.
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LeWitt’s death, after a long battle with cancer, brings an end to one of the most legendary artistic careers of our time. To all who knew him, he was an extraordinary and principled man, an artistic maverick, a native son who never forgot his local connections, a genius whose talent and drive were equaled only by his enormous generosity, and a husband and father whose love of his wife and their two daughters, Sofia and Eva, was a literal wellspring of color in his life and work.