- Title
- White: Four
- Date Made
- 1962
- Medium
- Acrylic on wood
- Dimensions
- 87 3/4 × 19 7/8 × 7 in. (222.89 × 50.48 × 17.78 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2019.251
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Curatorial Notes
Anne Truitt began her practice in the early 1960s, when women artists had a difficult time achieving critical and financial success. White: Four is related to a series of early sculptures made of wood slats that suggest a fragment of a fence, a form that may allude to notions of domesticity or imprisonment.Truitt carefully incised lines into the surface of the sculpture, modulating its face into four equal seg- ments, and then applied multiple coats of acrylic to the wooden shape. Her use of hand painted color and compositional techniques were at odds with the primarily male minimalists who eschewed personal surface marks in favor of outsourced and machine made forms.
In addition to making art, Truitt chronicled her life as an artist, a woman, and a mother in her writings, which have become a lodestar for subsequent generations of artists, particularly feminists.
Wall label, 2021.
- Copyright
- © annetruitt.org/Bridgeman
