“Anne Truitt, a major figure in American art for more than 40 years, abandoned work in psychology and nursing in the 1950s to concentrate on art. Truitt drew, painted, and wrote, but she is best known for her large, vertical, wooden sculptures meticulously covered in many coats of paint. “I’ve struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form,” she said in an interview with The Washington Post in 1987. Although she is often labelled a Minimalist, Truitt’s integration of painting and sculpture, her use of color, and her dedication to the relationship between meaning and form differentiate her work from that movement.”
