Anne Truitt

Who was Anne Truitt?

Anne Truitt, born Anne Dean, was a major American artist of the mid-20th century.

She married James Truitt in 1948, and she became a full-time artist in the 1950s. A protégée of art critic Clement Greenberg in her youth, she worked within an extremely limited set of variables throughout her five-decade career. She made what is considered her most important work in the early 1960s anticipating in many respects the work of minimalists like Donald Judd and Ellsworth Kelly. She was unlike minimalists in some significant ways.