Small Etchings/Black & White is a series of eight etchings consisting of small square-shaped spaces, depressions in the centre of the paper , filled with fine black lines. Numbered one to eight and intended to be displayed in this order, they apparently describe a progression. Serial accumulation following a clearly observable "logic" is one of the central tropes of LeWitt"s drawings and prints , as in, for example, his Composite Series (set of five, black/white) 1971 (Tate P07061 -5). However the logic of progression in this later series of Small Etchings is not immediately evident. Also atypical to LeWitt"s work (prior to the late 1990s) are the complex ...
