I had not heard the sad news that Anne Truitt died on December 23 at the age of 83. The Washington Post's obituary describes her recent rise in national esteem and her principal position among seminal Washington artists.
Some time ago I drafted a little something that never saw the light of day about art and writing about art, thoughts spurred from reading this line of Truitt's:
No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.I'm half the nation away from my books right now, so the quote will go unsourced, but I think I came across it in Stiles and Selz's Theories and Documents. Regardless, Truitt's essays and diaries are spectacular and may be a contribution to the culture to match her art.
Anne Truitt, Twining Court II, 2002
