Director's Forward: It is a privilege for the Whitney Museum of American Art to present a major retrospective of the work of Cy Twombly. Though he has chosen to live in Rome for the last twenty-two years and has been greatly influenced by a proximity to ancient cultures, Twombly's originality expresses the creative spirit of the American pioneer. Named for his father, a major league baseball player in the 1920s, he was born and raised in Virginia, where leadership and rebellion are ssociated with a heritage of manners and discipline. As Twombly has absorbed a sense of the ancient past, he has made the rewards a contribution to the present with a new classical language for contemporary American art.

Cy Twombly, paintings and drawings, 1954-1977: Whitney Museum of American Art, April 10-June 10, 1979

Cy Twombly

The Museum

David Sylvester has chosen texts by the Chinese sage Chuang Tzu to accompany works on paper by Newman, Beuys, Twombly, Klein, and Johns.

Barnett Newman, Joseph Beuys, Cy Twombly, Yves Klein, Jasper Johns, with texts from Chuang Tzu

Arts & Photography

Chuang, Tzu

Barnett Newman

Joseph Beuys

Yves Klein

Jasper Johns

David Sylvester

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Anthony d'Offay

Cy Twombly: Bolsena (English and German Edition)

Heiner Bastien

GAGOSIAN GALLERY

Cy Twombly's gestures are some of the most beloved in 20th century art. The painter, graphic artist, sculptor and photographer is prized above all for the sweeping, scribbled marks that he makes with his drawing instruments. Though mostly indecipherable, at least on a literal level, Twombly's colorful, dense gestures are compellingly articulate in their rhythm, line, allusion and mood. Deeply sophisticated and sensual, they follow in the footsteps of Western tradition while speaking resolutely in the hushed and tentative tones of the modern age, defying prevailing stylistic clichas and mediating between the old and new worlds. This exceptional volume presents 50 years of drawings by the artist, most taken from his own personal collection.

Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper: The Drawings at the Hermitage

Simon. Schama

Mikhail Piotrovsky

Julie Cabot

Julie Sylvester

Individual Artists

D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel

Cy Twombly: New Sculptures 1998–2005 Primarily known for his paintings and drawings, Cy Twombly has been creating sculpture during his entire career. His characteristic use of poetic and mythic elements is also evident in this field. Out of "mundane" objects such as crates, broomsticks, paper napkins, mashers, stools, string and paper he composes white-painted sculptures. Retaining their everyday identity and materiality the constituent objects take on a condition oblivious to time and change and a life of their own. Fanciful, witty, and at times sarcastic, Twombly transforms his objects, lending them a mythic meaningfulness and a whole new beauty. This publication is the catalog to an exhibition at Munich’s Alte Pinakothek in spring 2006 presenting 33 new sculptures created between 1998 and 2005. Edited by Reinhold Baumstark and Carla Schulz-Hoffmann Texts by Edward Albee, Giorgio Agamben, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann and others

Cy Twombly: New Sculptures 1998-2005 (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Schirmer/Mosel

192 pages. Hardcover exhibition catalogue. Texts in Japanese with English translation by Robert Reed. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from April 23-August 28, 2016.

Cy Twombly - Photographs Lyrical Variations (English and Multilingual Edition)

Torch Press

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