Anne Truitt: Pioneer of Minimal Art

The world and work of American Minimalist Anne Truitt, who viewed her carefully composed multicolored steles as three-dimensional paintingsLoosely associated with the Washington Color School, Anne Truitt (1921–2004) developed her characteristic column-like wooden sculptures in the 1960s. Whether of a single hue or multicolored bands, each surface accrues up to 40 layers of paint. Said Truitt, “What I was basically trying to do was take the image off the wall so that color could unfold freely in space.”Twenty years after her death, this publication, which accompanies the first comprehensive traveling exhibition of her work, introduces Truitt’s oeuvre to a broad European audience for the first time. It presents her groundbreaking sculptures from the early 1960s and her white Arundel paintings from the 1970s, as well as numerous works on paper and rare archival material. Read more