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August 2005 Marker Yale University Art Gallery Gift of the LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut, in honor of Terry and Richard Albright, B.A.

All lines are randomly spaced and equally distributed. The chalk proved to be extremely dusty, however, and LeWitt eventually switched to a water-soluble white crayon, like those used to create the drawing at MASS MoCA. Within a four-meter (160) circle, draw 10,000 black straight lines and 10,000 black not straight lines.

Wall Drawing 335 was originally executed in white chalk. In the mid-1970s LeWitt also began working with black, yellow, red, and blue backgrounds. LeWitt also adopted a new material around this time he replaced the fine pencil lines of the early drawings with thicker markings created by crayon. Sol LeWitt at Mass MoCA Holland Cotter writes: Sol LeWitt often said that beauty was not the point of his art, but the MASS MoCA installation of the wall pieces the artist designed. MASS MoCA members are invited to join us for a rare conversation with three of the artists who installed the 2008 Sol LeWitt retrospective as they reflect on LeWitt’s legacy, their role in carrying it forward, and their experiences working on the artist’s drawings more than a decade after his death. At the point that Wall Drawing 335 was conceived, the artist had begun to fill in the shapes with parallel lines. So responded Sol LeWitt when once asked if he was indeed the originator of wall drawings, as curator Alicia Legg had. These shapes originally included circles, rectangles, and triangles, but soon extended to rectangles, trapezoids and parallelograms, which LeWitt considered to be secondary shapes. Throughout the 1970s Sol LeWitt expanded his vocabulary to include broken lines, not-straight lines, lines drawn at random, arcs, circles, and lines demarcating basic geometric shapes. The vertical lines do not enter the figures. An exhilarating acre of Sol LeWitts wall drawings now fills a 19th-century brick factory building at Mass MoCA, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary. Conceived more than five years ago and designed by Sol LeWitt before he passed away in 2007, the exhibition is a collaboration with Yale.

On four black walls, white vertical parallel lines, and in the center of the walls, eight geometric figures (including cross, X) within which are white horizontal parallel lines. This historic event celebrated the opening of the largest exhibition of Sol LeWitt wall drawings ever installed and a 25 expansion of MASS MoCA’s galleries.