The Academy Art Museum is hosting its Kittredge-Wilson lecture, Easton’s Influence: A Sense of Place in Anne Truitt’s Art, on December 12, 2013 at 6 p.m. The lecture will feature Kristen Hileman, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Hileman organized Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection (2009-10) at the Hirshhorn Museum, the first full career museum retrospective of Anne Truitt’s work. The artist Anne Truitt was born in Baltimore in 1921 and spent her childhood in Easton. She lived in a house on South Street, just a block from the Academy Art Museum. She travelled extensively before eventually settling in Washington, DC. Her paintings and sculpture are noted for their simple linear qualities and investigation of color relationships. She had a successful career showing her work extensively in New York City and across the country. Along with her art Truitt was noted as a teacher and as an author of memoirs: Daybook (1982), Turn (1986), and Prospect (1996). She died in Washington in 2004.
Prior to coming to the Baltimore Museum of Art, Kristen Hileman was the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. She was also adjunct faculty at George Washington University and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Before her appointment at the Hirshhorn, she was the curator of the Arlington Arts Center, where she organized exhibitions of work by artists from the Mid-Atlantic region. Hileman received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park and her B.A. in International Studies from American University.
The cost of the lecture is $15 for Museum members and $20 for non-members. For further information, contact the Academy Art Museum at 410-822-2787 or visitwww.academyartmuseum.org.
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