17th+Summer

Date: 1974
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Artist: **Anne Truitt** Born: Baltimore, Maryland 1921 Died: Washington, District of Columbia 2004

Medium: acrylic on wood Dimensions: 95 5/8 x 15 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (242.8 x 39.80 x 20.7 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Kenneth Noland

Accession: 1991.176 ||

Anne Truitt was a psychology major at Bryn Mawr College, received her BA degree in 1943 and subsequently worked as a psychologist in Boston. After moving to Washington, DC, in 1948, she studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art for two years, and by 1950 was committed to being a full-time artist. In 1963 she had her first solo exhibition in New York of the reductive painted wood sculptures that have defined her aesthetic vision.
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A teacher for many years at the University of Maryland, Truitt has also published three volumes of her journals that eloquently document her life in art. In a 1974 entry from Daybook, she wrote: "As I worked along, making the sculptures as they appeared in the mind's eye, I slowly came to realize that what I was actually trying to do was to take paintings off the wall, to set color free in three dimensions for its own sake."

National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996)


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Anne Truitt Wikipedia Entry <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">SAAM Collections Page <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Eye Level: Anne Truitt: Poetry in Stillness] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Anne Truitt Estate
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