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Anne Truitt’s 1962 sculpture Catawba got its name from a street in North Carolina where she had appendicitis as a child. For Truitt color and form was connected to experience, to the evocation of a memory or a place.
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For me, this absolute unit of an azalea bush I passed on a road I don’t take very often reminded me of Catawba.