Wall Drawing #1222 (Scribbles: Curved Horizontal Bands)

Two new wall drawings created by LeWitt specifically for the museum's Ellen Johnson Gallery were shown in a 2007 exhibition, Sol LeWitt at the AMAM, along with works on loan from the LeWitt Collection. When LeWitt died at the age of seventy-eight, shortly after the exhibition opened, it became a memorial to the artist and his legacy. One, a graphite "scribble" drawing measuring twenty-two feet high, was a gift from the artist-and among the very last of his wall drawings. As was noted in his obituary in the New York Times, LeWitt gave instructions to teams of people-in Oberlin's case, members of his studio, Oberlin students, community members, and students from other colleges-for such drawings, which took weeks to execute, always giving the teams "wiggle room" and insisting that their input made a vital contribution to the final artwork.

To make this drawing, eleven people worked the equivalent of 101 draftsman days to cover the wall's 396 square feet with graphite. A total of 330 six-inch leads and twenty-eight woodless graphite pencil sticks were used.