This is the exhibition catalogue published by Hatje Cantz to accompany Anne Truitt: Pioneer of Minimal Art, presented by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and curated by Vivien Trommer. The 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. 

"What I was basically trying to do was take the image off the wall so that color could unfold freely in space," Truitt said. Twenty years after her death, this publication, which accompanies the first comprehensive traveling exhibition of her work, introduces Truitt's oeuvre to a broad European audience for the first time. It presents her groundbreaking sculptures from the early 1960s, the white Arundel Paintings from the 1970s, as well as numerous works on paper and rare archival material.

EU English / German language hardcover edition currently available.

ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-6295-3, 256 pages, 19 × 24 cm.

US English language hardcover edition to be published by Hatje Cantz on October 13, 2026

ISBN-13: 78-3775762472, 224 pages, 7.48 x 0.7 x 9.45 inches.

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