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, PA, B.A., 1943

Died: Washington, D.C., 2004


Selected One-Person Exhibitions:

2012
Anne Truitt: Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2011
Anne Truitt: Luminosities, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

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 Sculptures, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE

2000
Anne Truitt: Sculpture, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM

1998
Anne Dean Truitt: Sculpture and Works on Paper, The Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD

1992
Anne Truitt: A Life in Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art
Sculpture and Paintings, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Sculpture, Painting, and Works on Paper, Mariam Coffin Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

1986
Sculpture, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY

1983
Sculpture and Drawings, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

1976
Sculpture and Paintings, Bayly Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

1975
White Paintings, The Baltimore Museum of Art

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

1969
Sculpture, The Baltimore Museum of Art


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2012
The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Lines of Thought, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
The Space of the Line, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Yale University Art Gallery Reopening: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2011
Modern Masters from The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Absentee Landlord, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2010

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

2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989, 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 St. Louis Art Museum and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2004
A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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, CT
As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH
Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

2000
175th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York

1996
Acquiring Minds, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

1995
Color in Space: Pictorialism in Contemporary Sculpture, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
Faculty Exhibition, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

1993
Off the Mall: Inside Washington's Foremost Galleries, The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.

1992
Artscape '92, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore

1991
Small-Scale Sculpture, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston

1990
Grounded: Sculpture on the Floor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

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

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
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
University of Maryland Artists, The University of Maryland Gallery of Art, College Park, MD

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

1980
International Sculpture Conference, Washington, D.C.
American Drawing in Black and White: 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum, New York
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
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

1976
Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture 1776 - 1976, Whitney Museum of America Art, New York

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.

1972
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, Dayton, OH

1968
HemisFair '68, San Antonio, TX
A Contemporary Selection 1968, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
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. Traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art

1966
Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, The Jewish Museum, New York

1965
Seven Sculptors, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

1964
Black, White and Grey, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1963
Art has Many Facets: The Artistic Fascination with the Cube, Fine 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