Born in Hartford Connecticut in 1928 Sol Lewitt spent is childhood surrounded by art. After an art influenced childhood encouraged by his mother, he attended Syracuse University where he  studied art. After graduating, like most artist he made his pilgrimage to Europe, immersing himself in the masters and returning to America with a new artistic drive. He moved to New York to realize his artistic goals. Surrounded by a generation of aspiring artists. In the 1960’s, he took a job at the New York Museum of Modern Art where he was exposed to new kinds of art forms. He was greatly influenced by the simple repetitive sequences of motion photography by Eadward Muybridge’s. But Lewitts’ art was far from an imitation of anything seen in the past. He helped to establish a new movement, conceptual art, based on “the idea or concept as (is) the most important aspect of the work”1, and merge it with developing forms such as minimalism.  Throughout his career Lewitt has produced countless pieces of work from two dimensional wall drawings to monumental structures. He has changed the way we view and perceive art.