Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt
A Wall for Apricots, 1968
Born
Anne Dean

(1921-03-16)March 16, 1921
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DiedDecember 23, 2004(2004-12-23) (aged 83)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Known forSculpture, Color Field
MovementMinimalism

Anne Truitt (March 16, 1921 – December 23, 2004),[1] born Anne Dean, was an American sculptor of the mid-20th century.

She became well known in the late 1960s for her large-scale minimalist sculptures, especially after influential solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery in 1963 and the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1966. Unlike her contemporaries, she made her own sculptures by hand, eschewing industrial processes. Drawing from imagery from her past, her work also deals with the visual trace of memory and nostalgia.[2] This is exemplified by a series of early sculptures resembling monumental segments of white picket fence.[3]

  1. ^ Schudel, Matt (2004-12-23). "Minimalist Sculptor Anne Truitt, 83, Dies". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
  2. ^ Biographical Sketch by Walter Hopps Archived December 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine retrieved February 10, 2010
  3. ^ "At Matthew Marks, Anne Truitt is Modest as a Picket Fence". 2015-12-07.