Oral history interview with Anne Truitt
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 7 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 12 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 36 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Truitt, Anne, 1921-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Berman, Anne Louise, 1975-2016
label: Names
content: Bryn Mawr College -- Students
topic: label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculpture -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Truitt, Anne, 1921-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Berman, Anne Louise, 1975-2016
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Anne Truitt (1921-2004) was an artist from Washington, D.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Sound discs (Sound recording: master (400 min.), digital, 2 5/8 in.)
label: Extent
content: 6 Cassettes (Sound recording, duplicate)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2002 April-August
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.truitt02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound discs
label: Type
content: Cassettes
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Anne Truitt conducted 2002 April-August, by Anne Louise Bayly, for the Archives of American Art, in Washington, D.C.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Truitt speaks of her childhood in Easton, Maryland, the landscape, her parents, her early schooling and childhood friends; visiting her relative in Charlottesville, Virginia.; the mountains in N.C.; attending Bryn Mawr; studying psychology; working as a nurse; her marriage to James Truitt; the birth of her children and motherhood; studying Japanese; living in Japan and her work there; her first exposure to art; her beginning to sculpt; studying sculpture; working as an artist; exhibitions at Andre Emmerich Gallery and the Minami Gallery; Heracletus; Latin and its relation to her work; teaching at Mount Vernon Seminar, the Madeira School and the University of Maryland; and Yaddo. She recalls Katherine Graham, Clement Greenberg, James Lee Byars, Ramon Osuna, Sam Francis, Anthony Armstrong Jones, Beverly Pepper, and David Smith.