Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period of seven years, determined to come to terms with the forces that shaped her art and life. Within its beautifully written pages, you will come to know a woman whose range of sensitivity-moral, intellectual, sensual, emotional, and spiritual-is remarkably broad. She recalls her childhood on the eastern shore of Maryland, her career change from psychology to art, and her path to making sculptures so finely painted that they would "set colour free in three dimensions." She reflects on the generous advice of other artists, watches her own daughter's journey into motherhood, meditates on criticism and solitude, and struggles to express her vision. Resonant and true, encouraging and revelatory, Anne Truitt guides herself-and us-through a life in which domestic activities and the needs of children and friends are constantly juxtaposed against the world of colour and abstract geometry to which she is drawn in her art. A rare window on the workings of a creative mind, Daybookshowcases an extraordinary artist whose insights generously and succinctly illuminate the artistic process.

About the Author
Anne Truitt [1921-2004] had her first solo exhibition at the Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York in 1963. Her work is in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. The recipient of many grants, she was the director of the artists' colony Yaddo for several years in the early 1990s. Today the Estate of Anne Truitt is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery.

Audrey Niffenegger is a writer and visual artist who lives in Chicago and London. She has published two novels, The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, and many illustrated books including The Night Bookmobile and Raven Girl. She is currently at work on The Other Husband, a sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife, which is now an HBO series.

Reviews
"Truitt's frankness and intellectual curiosity about the hows and whys of a working artist's life has made Daybook something of a touchstone for aspiring artists and writers"
-Megan O'Grady, The New Yorker

"A remarkable record of a woman's reconciliation of art, motherhood, memoires of childhood, and present-day demands."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Daybook is a rare gift, illuminating and nourishing, a journal to read and re-read."
-May Sarton

"One of the great artists of our time, it's a treat to be allowed into Anne Truitt's mind as she contemplates the ups and downs of being an artist, mother and friend."
-Brie Larson

"A natural and graceful writer...Truitt's self-examination is unflinching and, at every moment, possessed of the inevitable dignity that attends a genuine commitment to telling the truth about oneself."
-Art in America





Book Information
ISBN 9781476740980
Author Anne Truitt
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Scribner
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Weight(grams) 229g
Dimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 15mm