Anne Truitt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anne Truitt

American artist

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1921

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 23-Dec-2004

Profession: painter, sculptor, drawer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Anne Truitt (March 16, 1921 – December 23, 2004), born Anne Dean, was a major American sculptor of the mid-20th century. She became well known in the late 1960s for her large-scale minimalist sculptures, especially after influential solo shows at André Emmerich Gallery in 1963 and the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1966.
Unlike her contemporaries, she made her own sculptures by hand, eschewing industrial processes.
Drawing from imagery from her past, her work also deals with the visual trace of memory and nostalgia.
This is exemplified by a series of early sculptures resembling monumental segments of white picket fence.