Short Straight Lines, Not Touching, Drawn at Random and Evenly Distributed Over the Area
1972
Artist, American, 1928 - 2007

Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 27.8 x 27.8 cm (10 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1991.241.62
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, New York, NY; purchase/gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1972
MoMA
1987
Beyond the Picture: Works by Robert Barry, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Richard Tuttle from the Collection of Dorothy & Herbert Vogel, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, 3 May-5 June 1987
1992
Sol LeWitt Drawings, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Westfalisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992-1994.
2000
"Force-Fields: Phases of the Kinetic", Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Hayward Gallery, London, 2000, unnumbered catalogue reproduction.
Bibliography
1987
Beyond the Picture: Works by Robert Barry, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Richard Tuttle from the Collection of Dorothy & Herbert Vogel, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, 1987, 59
2000
Force Fields: phases of the kinetic. Barcelona, 2000: unnumbered.
Inscriptions
across bottom in graphite: Short straight lines, not touching, drawn at random and evenly distributed over the area / Sol LeWitt MAY 12 1972
Wikidata ID
Q64632579