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PAUL CUMMINGS: Where is the accent in your name?

SOL LeWITT: It’s the last syllable – LeWITT. [Emphasis on “Witt”]

MR. CUMMINGS: It is? People argue about that all the time.

MR. LeWITT: It’s not a very interesting argument

Oral history interview with Sol LeWitt, 1974 July 15. LeWitt died on this day in 2007. Let’s hope by now this uninteresting argument has been put to rest.