Wall Drawing #142

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.

1982

Married: Carol LeWitt

19 juni 1982 – 28 september 1982

Exhibition: documenta 7