ANNE TRUITT

Born: Baltimore, 1921

Education: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1950
Institute of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. 1948-49
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Penn., B.A. 1943

Died: Washington, D.C., 2004


Selected One-Person Exhibitions:

2011
Anne Truitt: Works from the Estate, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Anne Truitt: Luminosities, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Del.

2010
Anne Truitt: Sculpture 1962-2004, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2009
Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

2004
Anne Truitt: Early Drawings and Sculpture, 1959-1963, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta

2003
Anne Truitt: New Work, Danese, New York
Anne Truitt Sculptures, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebr.

2001
Anne Truitt: Paintings, Danese, New York

2000
Anne Truitt, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
Anne Truitt: Sculpture, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, N.Mex.
Anne Truitt, Owings Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, N.Mex.

1998
Anne Truitt: Sculpture, Danese, New York
Anne Dean Truitt: Sculpture and Works on Paper, The Academy of the Arts, Easton, Md.

1996
Anne Truitt: New Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery, New York

1995
Sculpture: Four Decades, New Works on Paper, Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1994
Small Sculpture, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore

1992
Anne Truitt: A Life in Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art
Sculpture & Painting, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore
Sculpture and Paintings, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, N.C.
Sculpture, Painting, and Works on Paper, Mariam Coffin Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Penn.
Works on Paper: 1960-1992, Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1991
Anne Truitt: Sculpture: 1961-1991, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Seven Sculptures, One Painting, Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1989
Recent Paintings, Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1986
Sculpture, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, N.Y.
Sculpture 1971-1983, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Recent Paintings, Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1983
Sculpture and Drawings, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.
Sculpture and Drawings, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago

1981
New Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1980
Recent Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery, New York

1979
Arundel, (paintings) 1973-1979 and Summer 1978 (drawings), Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1977
Sculpture and Drawings, Pyramid Gallery Ltd., Washington, D.C.

1976
Sculpture and Paintings, Bayley Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

1975
White Paintings, The Baltimore Museum of Art
Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Sculpture and Paintings, Pyramid Galleries Ltd., Washington, D.C.

1974
Anne Truitt Retrospective: Sculpture and Drawings, 1961-1973, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

1973
Anne Truitt: Sculpture and Drawings, 1961-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Paintings, Pyramid Galleries Ltd., Washington, D.C.

1971
Truitt, Pyramid Galleries Ltd., Washington, D.C.

1969
Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Sculpture, The Baltimore Museum of Art

1967
Truitt, Minami Gallery, Tokyo

1965
Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery, New York

1964
Sculpture, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1963
Truitt, André Emmerich Gallery, New York


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011
Modern Masters from The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville, Tenn.
Absentee Landlord, curated by John Waters, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Anne Truitt and Hanna Wilke, Alex Zachary, New York

2010
Washington Color and Light, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sculptural Works by the Washington Colorfield, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Md.

2008
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976, The Jewish Museum. Traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2004
A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Woodwork, Anthony Grant, Inc, New York

2003
Elemental: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1950s to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2002
Minimal Art and its Legacy, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

2001
Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.

2000
175 Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
Friendships in Arcadia: Writers and Artists at Yaddo in the Nineties, Barbara Toll, Art in General, New York. Traveled to The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, N.Y.

1999
Walking, Danese, New York
Summer '99, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore

1998
Summer Group Exhibition, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Mich.

1997
Selected Works, Danese, New York

1996
Color Fields: The Classic Years: 1960-1975, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Acquiring Minds, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, Calif.

1995
Color in Space: Pictorialism in Contemporary Sculpture, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Faculty Exhibition, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
Geometric Abstraction, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore

1994
Small Scale Works, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore

1993
Off the Mall: Inside Washington's Foremost Galleries, The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.
Geometric Abstractions, André Emmerich Gallery, New York

1992
Anne Truitt Works on Paper 1961 – 1971, Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.
An Exhibition of Table Sculpture by Modern and Contemporary Masters, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Summer '92, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore
Artscape '92, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore

1991
Table Sculpture, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Small-Scale Sculpture, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston

1990
Sculpture, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
Grounded: Sculpture on the Floor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mich.

1988
Washington At WPA: 1975-1988, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Art Studio Faculty Exhibition of the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. Traveled to Kunst-Centrum Van Rood-Klooster, Brussels, and IBM Education Center, Mainz, Germany

1987
The 1987 Art Faculty Exhibition, The University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Md.
The Hard Edge Part I: The 60's, André Emmerich Gallery, New York

1986
Beyond Formalism: Three Sculptors of the 1960's, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York

1985
Crossovers: Artists in Two Mediums, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vt.
Cinquantes Dessins Americains, 1930-1980, Ecole Superieure de Beaux-Arts, Paris. Traveled to Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtishche Galerie, Frankfurt

1984
50 Artists/50 States, Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco
Seven Sculptors, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
350 Years of Art and Architecture in Maryland, The University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Md.
Profiles: 1984 Faculty Exhibition, The University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Md.

1983
Arts Gala, The University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Md.

1982
Grace Hartigan, Morris Louis, Clyfford Still, Anne Truitt: Inaugural Exhibition, The Baltimore Museum of Art
20/20, Terry Dintenfass Gallery-Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
University of Maryland Artists, The University of Maryland Gallery of Art, College Park, Md.
Benefit Exhibition for Planned Parenthood of New York, Semaphore Gallery, New York

1981
20th Century American Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1980
Drawings: 13 Washington Sculptors, Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Michael Rea Collection of American Art 1960-1980, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
International Sculpture Conference, Washington, D.C.
Summer Show, Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis
American Drawing in Black and White: 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum
Washington Color Painters, Milwaukee Art Center

1979
Washington Artists at HEW, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C.
Decade in Review: Selections from the 1970s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Invitational Exhibit, American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
Women Artists in Washington Collections, The University of Maryland Art Gallery and Women's Caucus for Art, College Park, Md.
Group Show, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Fifteen Artists, Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Artists from the University of Maryland Art Studio Faculty, Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Washington Art on Paper, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1977
Thirty Years of American Art 1945 - 1975, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
A View of the Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Alternatives, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York

1976
Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture 1776 - 1976, Whitney Museum of America Art, New York
Washington in Philadelphia, Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

1975
34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Sculpture: American Directions 1945 - 1975, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Traveled to Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, and New Orleans Museum of Art

1974
Five Artists: A Logic of Vision, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1973
Group Show, Pyramid Galleries Ltd., Washington, D.C.

1972
Anne Truitt: Color Fields; John Gossage: Photographs, Pyramid Galleries Ltd., Washington, D.C.
1972 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Collection of Philip and Leni Stern, The Baltimore Museum of Art

1971
A Small Loan Exhibition of Washington Artists at the Phillips Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

1970
Washington: Twenty Years, The Baltimore Museum of Art
1970 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1969
International Selection 1968-1969, Dayton Art Institute, Ohio

1968
HemisFair '68, San Antonio, Tex.
A Contemporary Selection 1968, Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Pure and Clear: American Innovations, Philadelphia Museum of Art

1967
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art

1966
Color and Space, Minami Gallery, Tokyo
Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, The Jewish Museum, New York

1965
Seven Sculptors, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1964
Black, White and Grey, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.

1963
Art has Many Facets: The Artistic Fascination with the Cube, Fine Art Arts Gallery, University of St. Thomas, Houston

1955
Artists of the United States in Latin American, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.

1954
Society of Washington Artists 62nd Annual Exhibition, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
22nd Annual Exhibition of Maryland Artists, The Baltimore Museum of Art
The 9th Annual Area Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1953
The 8th Annual Area Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1950
21st Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, and Photography, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

1949
Institute of Contemporary Arts 2nd Annual, K Street Market, Washington, D.C.