Anne Truitt: Pioneer of Minimal Art

March 28 – August 2, 2026
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20

Installation ViewsSelected Works
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Quipe
1984
Acrylic on wood
84 × 18 × 18 in.

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North
1963
Acrylic on wood
60⅜ × 96¼ × 12 in.
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Morning Moon
1969
Acrylic on wood
97½ × 20⅜ × 20½ in.
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Hardcastle
1962
Acrylic on wood
100⅛ × 42 × 16 in.
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Toth
1983
Acrylic on wood
96¼ × 9 × 9 in.
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Truitt '67 [17]
1967
Acrylic on paper
27½ × 41 in.
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7 Nov '62
1962
Acrylic on paper
22 × 30 in.
 
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Arundel LV
1999
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
36¼ × 47⅞ in.
 
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Arundel XXXIX
1976
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
48 × 96 in.
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14 June '65 [1]
1965
Acrylic on paper
21¾ × 31½ in.
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Turn
1977
Acrylic on canvas
12 × 96⅛ in.
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Ojibwa
1993
Acrylic on canvas
96 × 18¼ in.
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Echo
1973
Acrylic on canvas
48 × 144 in.
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Truitt '69
1969
Acrylic on linen
46 × 29 in.
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Pith #51
2004
Acrylic on canvas
32¾ × 38 3/4 in.
Anne Truitt: Pioneer of Minimal Art
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20
Grabbeplatz 5
Düsseldorf 40213
Germany
 

Presented by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and curated by Vivien Trommer, this exhibition is the first European retrospective of the work of Anne Truitt. Bringing together 120 works spanning more than four decades, the show features Truitt’s sculptures of the early 1960s, her works on paper, the white-on-white Arundel paintings, and the Pith series—among the final works she produced. Highlights include her early, vividly colored sculptures Hardcastle (1962), Remembered Sea (1971), and Quipe (1984); and shown for the first time since the 1960s is Summer Run (1964), a rare metal sculpture produced during Truitt’s time in Japan. Large-scale, elongated paintings such as Echo (1973) and Ojibwa (1993) underscore her lifelong exploration of color as both structure and sensation. 

 

The exhibition is organized by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Musée de Grenoble; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. It is accompanied by an extensively illustrated catalogue, Anne Truitt: Pioneer of Minimal Art, co-published by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
 
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