Artist: Cy Twombly (1929 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Art
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Cy Twombly is an American painter and draughtsman who is known for his original abstract style. His work is characterized by random scribbles on white or black backgrounds. Like Jackson Pollock, his work shows a rejection of traditional composition. Twombly moved to Rome in 1957.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (8)
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Roman Notes #3, Cy Twombly (United States, Virginia, Lexington, born 1928)  (Artist), 1970, Gouache, oil crayon on paper
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Cy Twombly - Untitled 1967 oil and crayon on ca Milwaukee Art Museum American
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Cy Twombly - Untitled 1973 Lithograph The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Cy Twombly - Untitled 1967 Oil and crayon on ca The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Cy Twombly - Untitled (Bolsena) 1969 oil-based house pain National Gallery of Art American
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Cy Twombly - Composition (Ritratto d'Artista) 1963 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts American
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Cy Twombly - Natural History Part I, Mushrooms: No. II 1976 mixed media techniqu Des Moines Art Center American
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Cy Twombly - Natural History Part II, Some Trees of Italy: Title Print 1976 mixed media techniqu Des Moines Art Center American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (14)
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Menil Collection: CY TWOMBLY: The Sculpture
This exhibition will feature a group of Twombly’s earliest sculptures, from the 1940s and 50s, assemblages made of modest everyday ob...
Modern Museum: In the Power of Painting
One common source for Warhol, Polke and Richter is both the thing as an object and images in the media. Twombly and Marden have a more abstract point of departure, gradually producing something like a sign. Bleckner's work seems to emerge from his...
: Art Dealer Monolith Leo Castelli Dies at 91
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art
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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth-Century Art
Drawn from the collections of the Loeb Art Center and 14 public and private sources, this international survey unites paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, books and book-objects, poet-artist collaborations, and more by over 50 ar...
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery: Recent Paintings: Ray Pierotti, Roy Carruthers and T.L. Lange
Ray Pierotti's work appears in numerous collections and installations around the world. His first showing in Atlanta at Mason Murer, www.masonmurer.com, (one of Atlanta’s newest fine art galleries) presents recent paintings based on the Sacred G...
Laurence Miller Gallery: Burk Uzzle: Riptide: America on the Flipside
The exhibition will also include several new works in color, in which the artist photographs heaps of shredded papers from the offices of professionals, like a dentist and an accountant, and from the studio of an erotic artist. Evocative of Jackso...
Galerie Caprice Horn: SMASH THE GHETTO – DEMOCRACIA and solo projects by MASLEN and MEHRA, DANIEL CANOGAR and LI WEI
Maslen & Mehra are exhibiting their latest installation which emulates the free-standing military recruitment office at Times Square, New York. It includes the giant neon flag on the side of the building and the similar placement of the screen on ...
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: In the beginning was MERZ: From Kurt Schwitters until today
He used the term MERZ for a concept which united all his artistic activities, naming his works MERZ drawings, MERZ paintings, MERZ sculptures, MERZ publications. He also organi...
Guggenheim: Clemente
Born in Naples in 1952, Clemente moved to Rome in 1970 to study architecture. The '70s in Italy were marked by frequent student protests, massive labor strikes, outbreaks of urban terrorism, and sweepin...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Williams College: Jackson Pollock at Williams College
Jackson Pollock at Williams College will feature Number 2, 1949, from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art; Number 13A, 1948: Arabesque, from the Yale University Art Gallery; and Number 7, 1950, from New York’s Museum of Modern...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: TheFlower as Image: 150 Works by the World’s Greatest Artists
It is thus the ambition of the exhibition to show how, throughout the epoch of modern art, the artists use, treat, challenge, express and experiment with the flower and its potential in the artistic process. Or, to put it differently, with the flo...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA: Basquiat: A Major Retrospective
Approximately 65 paintings and 50 works on paper demonstrate Basquiat’s skillful use of color, his aptitude for drawing, his integration of text into his canvases, and his development of African diaspora themes. This exhibition is the most compreh...

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