Background
Anne Truitt was born on March 16, 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. She grew up in Easton, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and spent her teenage years in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Anne Truitt was born on March 16, 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. She grew up in Easton, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and spent her teenage years in Asheville, North Carolina.
Truitt graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. degree in psychology in 1943. But she left the field of psychology in the mid-1940s. In 1949 Truitt studied sculpture for one academic year at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Washington, District of Columbia, followed by three months at the Dallas Museum of Fine Art.
Besides, Truitt had five honorary doctorates.
Truitt worked as a Red Cross nurse's aide at Massachusetts General Hospital until the end of World War II, serving in the wards at night after working as a research assistant in the hospital's psychiatric laboratory during the day. She wrote poems and short stories during this time.
After leaving the field of clinical psychology in the mid-1940s, Truitt began making figurative sculptures, but turned toward reduced geometric forms after visiting the Guggenheim Museum with her friend Mary Pinchot Meyer to see H.H. Arnason's exhibition "American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists" in November 1961. Truitt's first wood sculpture was titled "First" (1961).
In 1961 Truitt began to work in the style for which she later became known: painting multiple delicate layers of color characterized by subtle variations onto wooden constructions fabricated in accordance with scale drawings; the structural elements of these sculptures constitute armatures supporting color. She had her first solo exhibition at André Emmerich Gallery in 1963. From 1964 to 1967, during a period lived in Japan, she created aluminum sculptures.
In addition to her work as an artist, Truitt has written three books: "Daybook" (1982), "Turn" (1986), and "Prospect" (1996). For many years she was also associated with the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was a professor.
Truitt died on December 23, 2004 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Anne Truitt was awarded the Cather Medal in 2003.
Today her work is in the collections of many leading museums in the United States, among them the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work is also represented in international collections, notably the Panza Collection in Italy.
15 Nov '65
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Summer Sentinel
Swannanoa
Parva LVIII
Snow Sea
Australian Spring
9 Jan '73
Twining Court II
17 Nov '62
Truitt 86
17th Summer
Knight's Heritage
Sea Garden
Untitled (No. 11)
First
Catawba
Parva XXXVIII
Keep
Primrose
Truitt 67
Sumi Drawing
Twining Court I
Seed and Root
Parva XXVIIB
Summer '96, No 64
Remember No. 5
Untitled
Sun Flower
Sumi Drawing
7 Nov '62
Bloomsday
Quipe
Blythe
Parva XXVIII
Southern Elegy
Toth
Sumi Drawing
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Summer 88, No. 7
Gloucester
Sentinel
Parva LXX
One
30 July 1973
Untitled
Remember No. 6
Prima
Pith
Second Requiem
Untitled
Envoi
Return
Valley Forge
Arundel XXXIV
Arundel XIV
1 April '65
Parva XXIX
A Wall for Apricots
Twilight Fold
One May
Come Unto These Yellow Sands II
Summer 88, No. 6
Spanish Main
Signal
Quotations:
"What is important to me is not geometrical shape per se, or color per se, but to make a relationship between shape and color which feels to me like my experience. To make what feels to me like reality."
“Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God. But we have to pay attention to that area in order to notice the grace, or even perhaps to attract it.”
In 1984 Truitt was acting director of Yaddo, the artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Anne Truitt married James McConnell Truitt in 1947 and moved from Boston to Washington, District of Columbia, where he worked in the State Department. In 1948 James Truitt left the State Department and began a career in journalism; subsequently the Truitts moved around the United States and lived in Japan from 1964-1967 when James was Tokyo bureau chief for Newsweek.
Unfortunately, they divorced in 1969.
