Anne Truitt
Matthew Marks Gallery
The overriding aesthetic of the early 1960s was marked by Clement Greenberg’s procrustean sense of historical inevitability. Anne Truitt first met the demanding critic in 1959; over the years, she encountered Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, and the gallerist André Emmerich, who began to show her work in 1963. A New England blue blood who died at the age of eighty-three in 2004, Truitt is best known for her fusion of strong, boxy forms with a cultivated sense of colorDonald Judd meets Brice Marden, as it were. Yet the various associations made with Truitt’s work were anathema to the