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Anne Truitt was a major American artist of the midth century; she is associated with both minimalism and Color Field painting. Truitt graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in psychology in She was married to James Truitt in they divorced in , and she became a full-time artist in the s. She made what is considered her most important work in the early s anticipating in many respects the work of minimalists like Donald Judd and Ellsworth Kelly.

However, she was unlike minimalists in some significant ways. Truitt's first wood sculpture, titled "First" , consists of three white vertical slates rooted in a block ground, each coming to a point and braced to each other at the rear, resembling a fragment of a picket fence. The sculpture that made her significant to the development of Minimalism were aggressively plain and painted structures, often large.

The recessional platform under her sculpture raised them just enough off the ground that they appeared to float on a thin line of shadow.

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The boundary between sculpture and ground, between gravity and verticality, was made illusory. This formal ambivalence is mirrored by her insistence that color itself, for instance, contained a psychological vibration which when purified, as it is on a work of art, isolates the event it refers to as a thing rather than a feeling.

The event becomes a work of art, a visual sensation delivered by color. She was one of only three women included in the influential exhibition, Primary Structures at the Jewish Museum in New York. Truitt is also known for three books she wrote, Daybook, Turn, and Prospect, all journals. For many years she was associated with the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was a professor, and the artists' colony Yaddo, where she served as interim president.

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