The Museum's Department of Drawings and Prints has acquired fourteen pieces from Lesley's Distant Systems series—an ongoing statement about the unengineered simplicity of nature and the solar system.

The newly acquired works are the first giclée prints to be collected by this department—continuing the tradition of innovation shared by the Artist and Museum.

In 1981, the Museum purchased twenty-four prints from Lesley's Seasons series—its first acquisition of color laser prints.

This is the third acquisition of Lesley's work by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.