Best known as a minimalist sculptor, Anne Truitt‘s visual art is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also wrote three books about the creative process, Daybook (1982), Turn (1986), and Prospect (1996). She also wrote poetry and short fiction as a young woman, and translated Germaine Bree’s Du Temps Perdu Au Temps Retrouvé, Marcel Proust and Deliverance from Time (1956).
Truitt lived in DC from 1947 to 1949, while her husband, James McConnell Truitt, was employed by the State Department; when her husband worked as a journalist, they lived in several cities, including a residence in Japan from 1964 to 1967. She returned to DC in 1960, where she lived for the rest of her life. This is her final DC home; her artist studio was a detached building in the rear of the property.
The Homes
3506 35th St. NW, Washington, DC
Anne Truitt
3506 35th St. NW
Located in Cleveland Park neighborhood, Northwest- West of Rock Creek