Yellow Lines, Not Straight, Not Touching

1978 · Drawing

May one see it?

Not on view at present

Where is “Yellow Lines, Not Straight, Not Touching” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 10 days ago
In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
Source: The museum

On the map Museum page

Particulars

Accession number: 1991.241.75

What it shows

Non-representational

In the catalog

Drawings & watercolors Pen and ink Contemporary art 20th century American

Sources

National Gallery of Art
Image: National Gallery of Art — © the artist or rights holder

Meanwhile, in the life of Sol LeWitt

The whole life

1976
Co-founds Printed Matter
With fellow artists and critics — Lucy Lippard, Pat Steir, Ingrid Sischy and others — he helps found Printed Matter, a non-profit art space in New York's Tribeca and one of the first organizations dedicated to creating and distributing artists' books.
24 June 1977 – 2 October 1977
Exhibition: Documenta 6
1978–1979
Retrospective at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art in New York mounts a major mid-career retrospective of LeWitt; the exhibition then travels to various American venues.
1980
Moves from New York to Spoleto
Leaves New York for Spoleto, Italy; other accounts place the move as early as the late 1970s.
c. 1980
The frescoes of Giotto and Masaccio change his palette
LeWitt credited his shift from graphite pencil or crayon to vivid ink washes to his encounter with the frescoes of Giotto, Masaccio and other early Florentine painters.
1980
The book “Autobiography” is published
His book “Autobiography” is published (New York and Boston: Multiple and Lois and Michael K. Torf).