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Cy Twombly

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Cy (Edwin Parker Jr.) Twombly (1928 - 2011) was active/lived in Virginia, New York / Italy.  Cy Twombly is known for Improvisational line drawing, minimalism.

Biography photo for Cy (Edwin Parker Jr.) Twombly
photo © Sankei Shimbun Co., Courtesy Gagosian Gallery
 Following is the obituary of the artist by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, July 5, 2011

Cy Twombly, whose spare, childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out of step with the movements of postwar American art even as he became one of the era's most important painters, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 83.

His death was announced by the Gagosian Gallery, which represents his work. Mr. Twombly had battled cancer for several years.

In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start.  The curator Kirk Varnedoe, on the occasion of a 1994 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote that his work was "influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 18370 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Cy Twombly

   Publications  Book References:  91
Magazine References:  42

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42 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Cy Twombly
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions June 2006 Editors, Art in America Yes
Drawing: American Artist Line Still Matters April 2006 Lewis, David Dodge Yes
ARTnews Reviews March 2006 Editors, Artnews Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews February 2006 Editors Yes
ARTFORUM Ego in Arcadia: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh on Cy Twombley January 2006 Leeman, Richard Yes
ARTnews Reviews April 2005 ARTnews Editors Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 2004 Editors, Artnews No
ARTnews National News September 2004 Eitors, Artnews Yes
Art & Antiques Another World September 2004 Gomez, Edward Yes
Art & Auction publicappeal September 2004 Tully, Judd Yes
ARTnews Art Market-How the Spring Auctions July 2004 Kinsella & Gleadell Yes
ARTnews Art Market May 2004 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Hidden Pleasures and Public Treasur May 2004 Spears, Dorothy Yes
ARTnews The 10 Most Expensive Living Artist May 2004 Thomas, Kelly Devine No
Art & Auction striking it rich May 2004 Tully, Judd No
Art & Auction Lyrical Gestures April 2004 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
ARTFORUM Preview Winter 2004 January 2004 Editors, Artforum Yes
ARTnews A Relentless Connoisseur December 2003 Falkenstein, Michelle Yes
Art & Auction Personal Effects November 2003 Villinger, Carina Yes
Art in America Review of Books September 2003 Bowles, John P No
Art & Auction auction reviews September 2003 Editor, Art & Auction Yes
Art-Talk Auction June 2003 Editor, Art-Talk Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk May 2003 Editors, ARTnews No
Art & Antiques Basel on the Beach March 2003 Dunlap, William Yes
Art-Talk Contemporary Auctions Set Artist December 2002 Editors, ART-TALK Yes
Art & Auction Date line April 2001 Editors No
ARTnews Reviews January 2001 Editors Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene December 2000 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
Art in America Twombly Sculptures in Houston December 2000 Sylvester, David No
Art in America The White Originals July 2000 Sylvester, David Yes
ARTnews City Focus June 2000 Editors, ARTNews Yes
Art & Auction Talk of the Trade April 2000 Tully, Judd No
Art & Auction Marketplace January 2000 Editors Yes
ARTnews Reviews January 1999 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Cy Twombly May 1995 McBride, Elizabeth No
Art in America Expatriate Dreams February 1995 Adams, Brooks Yes
Art in America Twmbly's Tempietto February 1995 Mitchell, Charles Dee No
ARTnews Art Market January 1995 AN editors No
Art & Antiques Moment to Moment December 1994 Spears, Dorothy Yes
Art & Auction In the Galleries October 1994 AU editors Yes
Art & Antiques Sketchbook/Shows Not To Miss September 1994 AQ editors Yes
ARTFORUM Cy Was Here September 1994 Krauss, Rosalind Yes
91 Book References for Cy Twombly
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 360 Yes
2009 Newsom, Ronald Buell Lee Whitehead: Printmaker - Lithographer - Artist, A True Southern Treasure 0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2003 Schama, Simon (intro) Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
2003 Waters, John; Bruce Hainley Art: A Sex Book 208 Yes
2002 Del Roscio, Nicole (editor) Writings on Cy Twombly 360 Yes
2002 Keller and Malin (editors) Audible Silence Cy Twombly at Daros
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
2002 Sylvester, David Cheerio to Cheerios 387 No
2001 Byatt, A.S. (foreward) Writers on Artists 352 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Seidner, David Artists at Work Inside the Studios of Today's Most Celebrated Artists 0 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1997 Tesch, Jurgen/E Hollmann Icons of Art The 20th Century 216 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Del Roscio, Nicola (ed) Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture 0 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Sylvester, David Cy Twombly: Ten Sculptures
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
1995 Craig-Martin, Michael Drawing the Line Reappraising Drawing Past and Present
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Flam, Jack; Donald Marron The Paine Webber Art Collection 304 Yes
1995 Fuchs, Rudi/Adam D Weinberg Views from Abroad European Perspectives on American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 127 Yes
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1994 Varnedoe, Kirk Cy Twombly A Retrospective
(Exhibition catalog)		 180 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Ferguson, Russell (editor) Hand-Painted Pop American Art in Transition 1955-62
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1993 Joachimides, Christos (others) American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993
(Exhibition catalog)		 490 Yes
1992 Columbus Museum of Art A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 198 Yes
1991 John Berggruen Gallery Large Scale Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)		 47 Yes
1991 Murken, Axel/Christa Murken Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts 358 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 Yes
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Varnedoe, Kirk/Adam Gopnik High and Low Modern Art/Popular Culture
(Exhibition catalog)		 460 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Sparks, Esther Universal Limited Art Editions History and Catalogue/the 1st 25 Years 552 Yes
1988 Finch, Christopher Twentieth Century Watercolors 310 Yes
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1987 Brutvan, Cheryl Masterworks on Paper from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery 168 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul 20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art 176 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Hine Incorporated Cy Twombly Gaeta Sets 86 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1986 Godfrey, Tony The New Image Painting in the 1980s 159 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Smith, Roberta Cy Twombly
(Exhibition catalog)		 38 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 290 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Cy Twombly Paintings and Drawings 1952-1984
(Exhibition catalog)		 44 Yes
1984 Hunter, Sam The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection 599 Yes
1984 Lund Humphries Art of Our Time The Saatchi Collection (4 Vols) 700 Yes
1984 Pincus-Witten, Robert Eye to Eye Twenty Years of Art Criticism 232 No
1983 Museum of Contemporary Art The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 293 Yes
1983 Pradel, Jean-louise (editor) World Art Trends 200 Yes
1983 Welish, Marjorie Cy Twombly Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 Yes
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1982 Marx, Erich Beuys Rauschenberg Twombly Warhol
(Exhibition catalog)		 253 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Vogt, Paul Contemporary, Painting 134 Yes
1980 Castleman, Riva Printed Art: A View of Two Decades 144 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Cathcart, Linda L American Painting of the 1970s
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Towle, Tony/Peter Gale Contemporary American Prints
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1977 Societe des Expositions American Art in Belgium
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1976 Baro, Gene 30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Twentieth Century American Drawin Three Avant-Garde Generations
(Exhibition catalog)		 125 Yes
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Delehanty, Suzanne Cy Twombly Paintings, Drawings, Constructions 1951-1974
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 No
1975 Legg, Alicia American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA 84 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Lieberman, Herbert (ed) Artists/USA 1974-75: Guide to Contemporary American Art 190 No
1973 Bastian, Heiner Cy Twombly Zeichnungen 1953-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1973 Solomon, Elke M American Drawings 1963-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1972 Kahmen, Volker Eroticism in Contemporary Art 282 Yes
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
1969 Rhode Island School of Design The Albert Pilavin Collection Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1968 Sweeney, James Johnson Signals in the Sixties
(Exhibition catalog)		 1968 No
1967 Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art Two Decades of American Painting Gendai Amerika Kaiga Ten 81 Yes
1966 Pellegrini, Aldo New Tendencies in Art 320 Yes
1964 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
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