The Location of a Straight Black Line, a Not-Straight Yellow Line, a Broken Red Line and a Straight Blue Line, 1975

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Medium

graphite with colored pen on poster board

Dimensions

sheet: 38.1 × 38.42 cm (15 × 15 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)

Accession Number

2015.19.2742

Artists / Makers

Sol LeWitt (artist) American, 1928 - 2007

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: The Location of a Straight Black Line, / a Not-Straight Yellow Line, / a Broken Red Line and a Straight / Blue Line. / Sol Lewitt / August 5, 1975 / NYC; upper left verso in black ink on tape by unknown hand: - 138

Marks and Labels

lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: B

Provenance

The Honorable William H.G. FitzGerald, Mr. Desmond FitzGerald, and Mr. B. Francis Saul II, c/o The New York Studio School; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Honorable William H.G. Fitzgerald, Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, a

Exhibition History

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

2006: Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 238, no. 1585.