Catawba
Anne Truitt
American, 1921–2004
1962
A painted-wood sculpture in which Truitt stacks simplified rectangular volumes and uses carefully layered color to create a quiet, human-scaled presence.
You first notice its architectural, totemlike silhouette and the smooth, matte bands of deep navy, olive, and maroon that read like a pared-down horizon or a standing figure.
By bringing precise, painterly color and a personal sense of scale to geometric reduction, Truitt helped bridge painting and sculpture and opened a more introspective, emotional strand within 1960s Minimalism.
Medium
Painted wood
Dimensions
42 1/2 x 60 x 11" (106.6 x 152.4 x 27.9 cm)
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Credit
Given anonymously
Accession
115.1973
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