Cy Twombly

Twombly, Cy Mr.

American, 1928 - 2011

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American painter, sculptor and photographer (1928–2011)

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Cy Twombly, Sylvae, 1981, paint stick, flat paint, crayon, and graphite on paper, Gift of Lila Acheson Wallace, 1986.12.1

Sylvae

Cy Twombly · 1981 · paint stick, flat paint, crayon, and graphite on paper ·  Accession ID  1986.12.1

Cy Twombly, Sylvae, 1981, paint stick, flat paint, crayon, and graphite on paper, Gift of Lila Acheson Wallace, 1986.12.2

Sylvae

Cy Twombly · 1981 · paint stick, flat paint, crayon, and graphite on paper ·  Accession ID  1986.12.2

Cy Twombly, Nike, 1981, flat paint, crayon, and graphite on Fabriano wove paper, Gift of Lila Acheson Wallace, 1986.12.3

Nike

Cy Twombly · 1981 · flat paint, crayon, and graphite on Fabriano wove paper ·  Accession ID  1986.12.3

Styria Studio, Experiments in Art and Technology, Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1973, color screenprint and lithograph on wove paper, Gift of Robert Rauschenberg, 1976.66.28

Untitled

Styria Studio, Experiments in Art and Technology, Cy Twombly · 1973 · color screenprint and lithograph on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1976.66.28

Blank piece of vertically oriented tan paper.
Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Richard Peter Stankiewicz, Cy Twombly, Robert Whitman, Andy Warhol, Styria Studio, Experiments in Art and Technology, Various Artists, Lee Bontecou, Robert C. Breer, John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Mark di Suvero, Jim Dine, Dan Flavin, Öyvind Fahlström, Red Grooms, Hans Haacke, Alex Hay, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, The New York Collection for Stockholm Portfolio, 1973, portfolio of thirty prints in various media on various papers, Gift of Robert Rauschenberg, 1976.66.1-30

The New York Collection for Stockholm Portfolio

Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Richard Peter Stankiewicz, Cy Twombly, Robert Whitman, Andy Warhol, Styria Studio, Experiments in Art and Technology, Various Artists, Lee Bontecou, Robert C. Breer, John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Mark di Suvero, Jim Dine, Dan Flavin, Öyvind Fahlström, Red Grooms, Hans Haacke, Alex Hay, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik · 1973 · portfolio of thirty prints in various media on various papers ·  Accession ID  1976.66.1-30

Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1969-1971, color screenprint on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.278

Untitled

Cy Twombly · 1969-1971 · color screenprint on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2008.115.278

Rectangles, scribbles, and smudges loosely cluster to create a band that runs from the bottom left corner to the top right against a parchment-white background in this horizontal, abstract work. The work was created with wax crayons, graphite, and house paint on canvas. Some of the shapes and smudges are royal blue, scarlet red, ochre yellow, or gray. Scribbles that suggest illegible writing fill some of the rectangles or is scrawled elsewhere in the composition. Handwritten numbers in blue, yellow, gray, or pumpkin orange are sprinkled throughout, including 2237, 26, 300, 1200, 28, and “17 x 400” near the upper right; 82, 28, 23, and 18 near the center; and 82, 2014, 300, 24, and 8 near the lower left. The largest number, “16490” is written in tall letters near the lower right corner.
Cy Twombly, Untitled (Bolsena), 1969, oil-based house paint, wax crayon, and graphite on canvas, Gift of the Collectors Committee and Adriana and Robert Mnuchin, 1995.73.1

Untitled (Bolsena)

Cy Twombly · 1969 · oil-based house paint, wax crayon, and graphite on canvas ·  Accession ID  1995.73.1

Cy Twombly, Synopsis of a Battle, 1968, oil-based house paint and waxed crayon on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with the aid of funds from the Richard King Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts), 2014.136.130

Synopsis of a Battle

Cy Twombly · 1968 · oil-based house paint and waxed crayon on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.130

Cy Twombly, Donn Steward, Universal Limited Art Editions, Note II, 1967, etching on orange-buff laid handmade paper, Gift of the Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1976.56.187

Note II

Cy Twombly, Donn Steward, Universal Limited Art Editions · 1967 · etching on orange-buff laid handmade paper ·  Accession ID  1976.56.187

Cy Twombly, Donn Steward, Universal Limited Art Editions, Note I, 1967, etching on orange-buff laid handmade paper, Gift of the Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1976.56.186

Note I

Cy Twombly, Donn Steward, Universal Limited Art Editions · 1967 · etching on orange-buff laid handmade paper ·  Accession ID  1976.56.186

Bibliography

2010

  • Del Roscio, Nicola. Cy Twombly Drawings: Cat. Rais. 8 vols. Munich and New York, 2010-2017.