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 juni 1977 – 2 oktober 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).
![Ginevra de' Benci [obverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/8f29e3c9-a289-4d53-abf0-31a66e9e98fa/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
![Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/ff62e8d0-45c4-498f-ad36-6358de827e04/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
