Anne Truitt
Born 1921, Baltimore
Died 2004, Washington
1942 BA Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
1948-49 Institute of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.
Selected museum exhibitions: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2017); Dia Art Foundation (2017); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2009); Baltimore Museum of Art (1992); Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York (1986); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1975); Whitney Museum of American Art (1974); The Jewish Museum, New York (1966)
Selected honors: Willa S. Cather Medal, University of Nebraska (2003); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1970)
Selected public collections: Baltimore Museum of Art; Dia Art Foundation; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Panza Collection, Verese, Italy; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art
A pioneering American sculptor who made significant contributions to the development of Minimalism, Anne Truitt also made abstract paintings like the present work. Bringing tremendous attention to the perception of her work, the artist here applied her concerns regarding pictorial effects, color, space, and support. As Truitt explained: “…latitude and longitude, of my sculptures exactly reflect my concern with my position in space, my location. This concern, an obsession since early childhood, must have been the root of my 1961 decision—taken unconsciously in a wave of conviction so total as to have been unchallenged by logic—to place my sculptures on their own feet as I am on mine.”