biographie de Anne TRUITT (1921-2004)

Birth place: Baltimore, MD

Addresses: Washington, DC

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: Bryn Mawr Col, BA, 1943; Inst Contemp Art, Washington, DC, 1948-1949, with A. Giampietro; Kenneth Noland; Dallas Mus Fine Arts, 1950.

Exhibited: Andre Emmerich, NYC, 1963 (solo) and periodically thereafter; Minami Gal., Tokyo, Japan, 1964-67 (2 solos); Seven Sculptors," Inst Contemp Art, Phila., Pa, 1965; "American Sculpture of the 60's," LACMA, 1967; "The Pure & Clear: American Innovations," PMA, 1968; WMAA biennials, 1968, 1970, 1973; WMAA, solo, 1973; CGA, 1974 (solo); "Washington, Twenty Years," Baltimore Mus Art, Md, 1970; Pyramid Gallery, Wash., DC, 1970s; "200 Years of American Sculpture" WMAA, 1976; Univ. of Virginia Art Mus., Charlottesville, 1976 (solo). Awards: Guggenheim fel, 1971; Nat Endowment Arts, 1972."

Work: CGA; NMAA; Saint Louis Mus Art, Mo; Univ Ariz Mus Art, Tucson

Comments: Minimalist sculptor. In 1961, she took tall, vertical boxes in wood (constructed to her specifications by carpenters) and painted them with simple bands of color. Most of her sculpture has been of this type. Truitt has spoken of them as three-dimensional paintings" (see Anne Truitt: Sculpture and Painting) and they have been discussed as having a metaphorical presence. Preferred media: woods, acrylics.

Sources: WW73; Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 361; Gregory Battcock, Minimal Art, a Critical Anthology, (Dutton, 1968); Clement Greenberg, "Changer: Anne Truitt, American Artist Whose Painted Structures Helped to Change the Course of Amerian Sculpture," Vogue (May 1968); Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, 315-16; Anne Truitt: Sculpture and Painting (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Art Mus., 1976)"