“Splotch #22” is the last work by American artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). It is made of acrylic on fiberglass. (Photo: PaceWildenstein)

RICHMOND, VA.-A complex sculpture by Sol LeWitt, one of the most important American artists of the Post-War period, and an oil painting by William D. Washington, famed throughout the South for his "Burial of Latane" Civil War painting, have been acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

The museum's trustees also approved adding to the VMFA collection a work by Ceal Floyer, a Berlin-based Conceptual artist, and a bronze sculpture and its wax model by French artist Antoine-Louis Barye.

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