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1921 Baltimore, Maryland - 2004 Washington District Of Columbia. Known for: Sculptor, minimalist painting.
Anne Dean was born in 1921 and raised in Easton, Maryland and Asheville, North Carolina. She attended Bryn Mawr and studied psychology. After working for the Red Cross as a nurse's aide in the... Read full biography
Anne Dean was born in 1921 and raised in Easton, Maryland and Asheville, North Carolina. She attended Bryn Mawr and studied psychology. After working for the Red Cross as a nurse's aide in the psychiatric ward at Massachusetts General during World War II, she decided to change her course of study... Read full biography
Anne Dean was born in 1921 and raised in Easton, Maryland and Asheville, North Carolina. She attended Bryn Mawr and studied psychology. After working for the Red Cross as a nurse's aide in the psychiatric ward at Massachusetts General during World War II, she decided to change her course of study to art. The artist married James Truitt and while raising her children she continued to pursue her art. She published a translation of Germaine Bree's "Marcel Proust and Deliverance from Time" in 1955.... Read full biography
Anne Dean was born in 1921 and raised in Easton, Maryland and Asheville, North Carolina. She attended Bryn Mawr and studied psychology. After working for the Red Cross as a nurse's aide in the psychiatric ward at Massachusetts General during World War II, she decided to change her course of study to art. The artist married James Truitt and while raising her children she continued to pursue her art. She published a translation of Germaine Bree's "Marcel Proust and Deliverance from Time" in 1955. In 1963, at the age of 41, Truitt had her first show at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York. This exhibit has been noted as one of the first shows of minimalist sculpture. Truitt has been the subject of retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of... Read full biography
Anne Dean was born in 1921 and raised in Easton, Maryland and Asheville, North Carolina. She attended Bryn Mawr and studied psychology. After working for the Red Cross as a nurse's aide in the psychiatric ward at Massachusetts General during World War II, she decided to change her course of study to art. The artist married James Truitt and while raising her children she continued to pursue her art. She published a translation of Germaine Bree's "Marcel Proust and Deliverance from Time" in 1955. In 1963, at the age of 41, Truitt had her first show at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York. This exhibit has been noted as one of the first shows of minimalist sculpture. Truitt has been the subject of retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore museum of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1982 Anne Truitt published, "Daybook: The Journal o... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
Awards/Recognition
- •Yaddo Resident Artist
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art