Editing Carl Andre (section)

== Early life ==
Andre was born on September 16, 1935, in [[Quincy, Massachusetts]], the youngest of the three children of George (a master designer of freshwater plumbing for ships<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Tomkins|first=Calvin|date=2011-11-27|title=The Materialist|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/05/the-materialist|access-date=2024-02-07|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US|issn=0028-792X}}</ref>) and Margaret (Johnson) Andre.<ref name="Kennedy-2024">{{Cite news|last=Kennedy|first=Randy|date=2024-01-24|title=Carl Andre, 88, Austerely Minimalist Sculptor, Is Dead|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/arts/carl-andre-dead.html|access-date=2024-01-27|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He completed primary and secondary schooling in the Quincy public school system and studied art at [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]], from 1951 to 1953.<ref name="ReferenceA">''Naked by the Window,'' by Robert Katz published 1990 by The Atlantic Monthly Free Press {{ISBN|0-87113-354-7}}</ref> While at Phillips Academy, he became friends with [[Hollis Frampton]], who would later influence Andre's radical approach to sculpture through their conversations about art<ref name="ReferenceB">''12 Dialogues,'' Carl Andre and Hollis Frampton 1962–1963 published by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Press and New York University Press, edited by Benjamin HD Buchloh {{ISBN|0-8147-0579-0}}</ref> and through introductions to other artists.<ref name="ReferenceC">''Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties,'' edited by James Meyer, published 2004 by Yale University Press {{ISBN|0-300-10590-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-300-10590-2}}</ref>

Andre served in the [[U.S. Army]] in [[North Carolina]] from 1955 to 1956, and moved to New York City in 1956. While in New York, Frampton introduced Andre to [[Constantin Brâncuși]], through whom Andre became re-acquainted with a former classmate from Phillips Academy, [[Frank Stella]], in 1958. Andre shared studio space with Stella from 1958 through 1960.<ref name="ReferenceC" />