Anne Truitt gets her retrospective

Back in October I listed 10 overdue museum shows. Right away I found out that one of them was indeed being planned: A Martin Puryear retro at MoMA. Today I learned that another Washington-based artist who was on my list is getting her due: Hirshhorn curator Kristen Hileman is organizing an Anne Truitt retrospective. Expect it to open in October, 2008. The Hirsh presentation will also feature the first major monograph on Truitt. 

As I've said here plenty of times before, no minimalist sculptor was more overdue for a retrospective. (Second place: Larry Bell?) I bet that James Meyer, whose scholarship has helped to ensure Truitt's place in art history, thinks so too. Meyer places Truitt prominently in the narrative of his book Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties.

The tour has yet to be announced, but I hope that the Hammer, MOCA, MCA Chicago and the Whitney all get on the phone to the Hirsh first thing on Tuesday.

Related: In July I wrote about Truitt and Maryland's Eastern Shore. She passed away in 2004. Carolyn Zick posts a few passages from Prospect.