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).
1981
A proposal for Fairmount Park
The Fairmount Park Art Association invites him to propose a public artwork for a site in the park. He chooses the long, rectangular plot known as the Reilly Memorial and submits a drawing with instructions: flower plantings in four colours — white, yellow, red and blue — in rows running in four directions, framed by low evergreen hedges.
