Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt (1921-2004) was an American minimalist sculptor. Most of her work is housed in the city where she was born, at the Baltimore Museum of Art .

She graduated from Bryn Mawr with a degree in psychology in 1943, and did not seriously think about art until she was already immersed in the demands of raising a family.

The sculptures that made her famous are tall wooden rectangular columns with precision carpentry; they are painted in subtle gradients of color that change under different light conditions. Her emphasis on light and color and her presence in the Washington, DC area linked her loosely to the Washington Color School.

She is also remembered for her journals, which chronicled the difficulties of balancing her family life with her artistic life.

In 2005, the Museum of Modern Art removed Truitt's 1962 sculpture Catawba from public view after it was damaged by a visitor. [1]

Bibliography

• Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (1982)
• Turn: The Journal of an Artist (1986)
• Prospect: The Journal of an Artist (1996)

External links

• Washington Post obituary
• Artnet images of Truitt's work