Anne Truitt, Summer 96

Anne Truitt, Summer '96, 1996, Acrylic on paper 40 1/2 x 60 inches

Truitt would later distill these places, events and memories into her work. She believed experiences—particularly difficult or painful ones—were “the ground out of which art grows,” as she said in her oral history interview. “People talk as if art were something that you did with your eyes and your brain, but it’s not. It’s something that grows out of a ground.”

From the Smithsonian. Truitt’s drawings are currently on view at Matthew Marks in Chelsea. Don’t miss them.

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