Cooling Tower, Caerphilly, South Wales, Great Britain

Bernd and Hilla Becher|Hilla Becher|Bernd Becher

1966 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

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.

Artist

Bernd and Hilla Becher|Hilla Becher|Bernd Becher

Date

1966

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gift of the LeWitt Family, in memory of Bernd and Hilla Becher, 2018