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Anne Truitt

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1960

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Anne Truitt

First

1960

Physical Qualities Acrylic on wood, 44 1/4 x 17 3/4 x 7 in. (112.4 x 45.1 x 17.8 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of the Artist, Washington, D.C.
Object Number 1995.70
“What did I know, I asked myself. What did I love? What was it that meant the very most to me inside my very own self? The fields and trees and fences and boards and lattices of my childhood [in Easton, Maryland] rushed across my inner eye as if borne by a great, strong wind. I saw them all, detail and panorama, and my feeling for them welled up to sweep me into the knowledge that I could make them.” —Anne Truitt, 1975
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1995; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1982-1995; from the artist
Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection

Contemporary Wing Reinstallation

Every Day: Selections from the Collection
Kristen Hileman, "Anne Truitt, Perception and Reflection," "Hirshhorn Magazine," Fall 2009, pp. 2-6, ill. p. 6.
Kristen Hileman, "Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection," Giles, 2009, pp. 12-13, p.65 , ill.

Inscribed: Signed, on bottom, Truitt Dec '61

Artist

Anne Truitt

1920–2003

born Baltimore, MD 1921; died Washington D.C. 2004
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