Anne Truitt: White Paintings

February 17 - April 9, 2022
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

Installation ViewsSelected Works
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Arundel III  1973
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
120⅛ × 18⅛ inches; 305 × 46 cm
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Arundel III
(Detail)

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Arundel XIII 1974
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
14⅞ × 90¾ inches; 38 × 231 cm

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Arundel XXXVI 1976
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
92¼ × 8¾ inches; 234 × 22 cm

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Arundel XXXVI 
(Detail)

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Arundel XXXIX 1976
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
48 × 96 inches; 122 × 244 cm

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Arundel XXXIX 
(Detail)

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Arundel XLIII 1977
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
22 × 42 inches; 56 × 107 cm

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Arundel XLIII 
(Detail)

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Arundel XLIII 
(Detail)

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Arundel XLIX 1979
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
12 × 96 inches; 31 × 244 cm

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Arundel XLIX 
(Detail)

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Arundel LV 1999
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
36 ¼ × 47⅞ inches; 92 × 122 cm

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Arundel LV 
(Detail)

Anne Truitt: White Paintings includes seven paintings made between 1973 and 1999. Each painting consists of a rectangular canvas covered with a uniformly painted white ground on which the artist sparingly applied a few crisp graphite lines and occasionally some additional strokes of pure titanium white. Truitt began the white paintings in 1973, calling the series Arundel after the county in Maryland, near where she grew up. This exhibition is the first to solely focus on this singular body of work since 1975, when the Baltimore Museum of Art organized “Anne Truitt: White Paintings,” from which the current show takes its title.

 

https://matthewmarks.com/online/anne-truitt-white-paintings-2022