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Anne Truitt Biography
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1921 |
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Born in Baltimore, MD
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1943 |
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B.A., Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
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1947 |
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Married James McConnell Truitt and moved to Washington, DC
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1948 - 1949 |
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Studied sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
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1950 |
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Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
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1964 - 1967 |
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Lived in Japan
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1970 |
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Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
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1971 |
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National Endowment for the Arts Fellow
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1970 - 1972 |
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Corcoran Gallery of Art Fellow
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1977 |
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National Endowment for the Arts Fellow
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1981 |
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Australia Arts Council Fellow
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1984 |
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Yaddo, Acting Executive Director, Saratoga Springs, NY
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1985 |
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Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
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1980 - 1986 |
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Director, Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, NY
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1987 |
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Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
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1988 |
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Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Lexington Park, MD
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1980 - 1991 |
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Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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1990 - 1991 |
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Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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1991 |
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Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
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1991 |
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Professor Emerita of Art, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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1995 |
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Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Parsons, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
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2003 |
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The Cather Medal, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
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1977 - 2004 |
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Member, Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, NY
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1980 - 2004 |
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Advisory Board, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
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2004 |
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Died in Washington, DC
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2004
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Anne Truitt: Early Drawings and Sculpture, 1959-1963, Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Atlanta, GA (solo)
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2004
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A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
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2003
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Elemental: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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2003
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1950s to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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2002
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Minimal Art and its Legacy, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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2001
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Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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2001
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As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH
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2001
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Anne Truitt: Paintings, Danese Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2000
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Owings Dewey Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
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2000
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Anne Truitt, Grant Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
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2000
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175 Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
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1999
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Walking, Danese, New York, NY
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1999
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Summer '99, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
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1998
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Summer Group Exhibition, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
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1997
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Selected Works, Danese, New York, NY
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1996
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Color Fields: The Classic Years: 1960-1975, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
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1996
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Acquiring Minds, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
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1995
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Faculty Exhibition, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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1995
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Color in Space: Pictorialism in Contemporary Sculpture, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
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1994
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Small Scale Works, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
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1993
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Off the Mall: Inside Washington's Foremost Galleries, The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
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1993
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Geometric Abstractions, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
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1992
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Anne Truitt: A Life in Art, Retrospective Exhibition, Curated by Brenda Richardson, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)
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1991
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Sculpture and Paintings, Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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1990
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Sculpture, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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1988
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Washington At WPA: 1975-1988, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
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1987
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The 1987 Art Faculty Exhibition, The University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD
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1986
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Beyond Formalism: Three Sculptors of the 60's, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY
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1981
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Sculpture, paintings and drawings, Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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1974
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Sculpture and Drawings, 1961-1973, Retrospective Exhibition, Curated by Walter Hopps, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
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1973 - 1974
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Anne Truitt Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
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