{"data":{"id":"1344","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":1344,"topgoose_id":460,"tms_id":1344,"display_name":"Anne Truitt","sort_name":"Truitt Anne","display_date":"1921–2004","begin_date":"1921","end_date":"2004","biography":"\u003cp\u003eAfter a period in which she made\nrepresentational sculpture, in 1961 Anne\nTruitt broke new ground with a simple\npainted wood structure resembling\na fence picket. That work, appropriately\ntitled \u003cem\u003eFirst\u003c/em\u003e, and the boxlike sculptures\nthat immediately followed were often\nassociated with grave markers. By the late\n1960s Truitt had established the parameters\nthat would characterize most of her\nsculptural work for the next four decades:\nnarrow, vertical shapes painted with\nbands and stripes of color. Her palette was\ndiverse, and the harmonies and contrasts\nbetween these color variants led to\nthe association of her stele-like sculptures—\noften otherwise classed as Minimalist—\nwith the Color Field painters of the previous\ngeneration. Truitt, however, eschewed\nconnections with either abstract movement,\noften giving her sculptures evocative\ntitles and relating them to funerary\nsculpture, the human body, and questions\nof the individual’s place in the universe.\nIndeed, she declared: “I have never\nallowed myself . . . to be called a minimalist.\nBecause minimal art is characterized\nby nonreferentiality. I’ve struggled all my\nlife to get maximum meaning in the\nsimplest possible form.”\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/27757\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTriad\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e Truitt covered a\nprefabricated wood structure with layers\nand layers of paint, laboriously sanding\nbetween each application to achieve\na polished finish that nearly obliterates the\ntrace of brushstrokes altogether. The title\nfor this slender column, \u003cem\u003eTriad\u003c/em\u003e, may describe\nthe sculpture’s three distinct planes of\ncolor: vertical stripes of beige and peach,\nand a thin horizontal orange band that\ndraws the eye downward, anchoring\nthe sculpture much like the bass note in\na harmonic musical triad.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500022909","wikidata_id":"Q565848","created_at":"2017-08-30T15:41:03.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-09T07:04:20.715-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/1344/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/1344/exhibitions"}}}}