Anne Truitt

Biography

Anne Truitt (1921–2004) was an American sculptor who became known in the late 1960s for large-scale minimalist sculptures, particularly after her solo show at André Emmerich Gallery in 1963 and a group show at the Jewish Museum in 1966. Unlike her contemporaries, she made her sculptures by hand rather than by industrial means, and her work, drawing on imagery from her past, deals with memory and nostalgia – as in early pieces resembling monumental segments of white picket fence.