Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection

Anne Truitt's solo exhibition of towering and wall-like painted sculpture at the André Emmerich Gallery, New York, in February 1963 established her as a pivotal figure in the experimentation in radically reduced form and geometric abstraction that happened throughout the 1960s. Although her work was compared to that of artists labeled "post-painterly" and "minimal," Truitt (b. Baltimore, Maryland, 1921; d. Washington, DC, 2004) pursued a course uniquely independent from such contemporaries as Donald Judd, Morris Louis, Robert Morris, and Kenneth Noland. She strove to liberate her meticulously executed and nuanced painted compositions from the limits of a two-dimensional medium and at first produced sculpture suggestive of fences, tombstones, and other architectural elements from her native Eastern Shore of Maryland. She eventually evolved the powerful columnar format that became the hallmark of her work. Yet, throughout her career, Truitt continued to create works on paper and canvas and investigate further relationships of form, color, and space.

This monograph accompanied the first major exhibition of Anne Truitt's art since her death in 2004 and the single comprehensive survey of the artist's work since her 1973-4 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Published by Giles, 2009. Hardcover. In very good condition; minor wear on dust cover, some yellowing on page edges.

9.75"w x 11.25"h x .75"d