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Sol LeWitt

Short Straight Lines, Not Touching, Drawn at Random and Evenly Distributed Over the Area, 1972

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Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 27.8 x 27.8 cm (10 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel

Accession Number

1991.241.62

Artists / Makers

Sol LeWitt (artist) American, 1928 - 2007

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Inscription

across bottom in graphite: Short straight lines, not touching, drawn at random and evenly distributed over the area / Sol LeWitt MAY 12 1972

Provenance

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, New York, NY; purchase/gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Vogel, Herbert, Mr. and Mrs.

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.

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