In one of the greatest meditations on the artistic life ever written, Anne Truitt completes the trilogy of journals she began in 1979. In "Prospect" she discusses the joys of parenthood and grandparenthood, the perils of old age, and the way artists work. Each page is rich with insights and thought. Simply the best book I've read in five years. Her art is great, but it is for these books that Anne Truitt will be remembered, taking a place among diarists of historical significance.

This book is the outstanding conclusion to Truitt's trilogy of journals. Her insights are luminous, her prose redolent of each thing she experiences. With her heart, our hearts leap and fall, break and rejoice. An amazing achievement, a possession for all time.

This is one of my very favorite books. Anne Truitt is an artist who has led a full life as a mother and wife as well as achieving a degree of artistic fame. The first woman ever to show solo in the Whitney Museum, she has turned her mind to writing, to ouy great benefit. A joy to read.