Anne Truitt

"I had hustled my pain, my despair, my delight, my bafflement only paper and into clay and wood and stone, and fixed them there as if in magic enchantment. I had thought to hold them, beyond reexamination, reexperience. Sprung from my deliberately wrought tombs, my most secreet feelings arose alive, bleeding and dazzling, to overwhelm me once more."
Anne Truitt, quoted by Kristen Hileman in a Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection, published by Giles.

Anne Truitt was born in Baltimore, MD, but lived in Washington, D.C. for most of her adult life. After leaving the field of clinical psychology in the mid-1940's, Truitt began making figurative sculptures, but turned toward reduced geometric forms after seeing works by Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt in 1961. Despite affinities to the paintings of the Color Field artists often associated with Washington, D.C., and the sculpture of artists who came to be known as Minimalists, Truitt's art was an independent, and largely under-recognized, exploration of abstraction and personal references.

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Anne Truitt: Drawings Text by Brenda Richardson. This retrospective of Anne Truitt’s works on paper spans the four decades of her career, from the early 1960s--when Truitt first developed the totemic sculptures in painted wood for which she
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Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection Text by Kristen Hileman, James Meyer. Anne Truitt (1921-2004) is a heroine of American Minimalism, an increasingly admired artist whose journals (Daybook, Prospect, Turn) have a longstanding and devoted readership, but whose art has not previously been
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Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt: Drawings

Text by Brenda Richardson.
Published by Matthew Marks Gallery

This retrospective of Anne Truitt’s works on paper spans the four decades of her career, from the early 1960s--when Truitt first developed the totemic sculptures in painted wood for which she is best known--to the last years of her life. Many of the drawings are reproduced here for the first time, and cover the full range of her drawing techniques, from graphite, ink and pastel to acrylic on paper. Edges are variously taped, rolled or sliced; Truitt’s line is sometimes bold, and at other times subtle enough to seem almost invisible. In one group of works from 1976, paint is applied in layers of subtle color (a signature of her work in all media); a 1966 series of distilled, hard-edged abstractions evoke the architecture of the artist’s childhood home with its white clapboard siding and picket fence. This volume offers the first overview of Truitt’s drawings to date.

Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection

Text by Kristen Hileman, James Meyer.
Published by Giles

Anne Truitt (1921-2004) is a heroine of American Minimalism, an increasingly admired artist whose journals (Daybook, Prospect, Turn) have a longstanding and devoted readership, but whose art has not previously been the subject of a substantial monograph. Perception and Reflection remedies this historical oversight superbly and decisively. The evolution of Truitt's sensibility is at once a classic Minimalist story and the tale of a truly independent spirit: following an encounter with the black paintings of Ad Reinhardt at the Guggenheim in 1961, she abandoned her earlier sculptural style and began to make stark, columnar works inscribed with bands of sometimes bright and sometimes quiet color. Truitt's account of this transition betrays her rare clarity and sensitivity: "I thought to myself, 'If I make a sculpture, it will just stand up straight and the seasons will go around it and the light will go around it and it will record time.'"