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Cy Twombly
Sign in to saveAlso known as Edwin Parker Twombly, Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr., Edwin Parker, Jr. Twombly, Edwin Parker Twobly, Edwin Parker Twombly Jnr
American painter, sculptor and photographer (1928–2011)
Key facts
- Born
- Edwin Parker Twombly Jr. , ( 1928-04-25 ) April 25, 1928, Lexington, Virginia , U.S.
- Died
- July 5, 2011 (2011-07-05) (aged 83), Rome , Italy
- Education
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts Washington and Lee University Art Students League Black Mountain College
- Known for
- Painting, sculpture, calligraphy
- Spouse
- Tatiana Franchetti ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1959 ; died 2010 )
- Partner
- Nicola Del Roscio (1964–2011)
- Awards
- Praemium Imperiale , Legion of Honor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edwin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lexington
- Place of death
- Rome
- Occupation
- artist
- Educated at
- Aiglon College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- documenta 7
- Student of
- Ben Shahn
- Field of work
- art of sculpture
- Genre
- abstract art
- Movement
- Postmodernism
- Work location
- Asheville
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- date of birth
- 1928-04-25
- date of death
- 2011-07-05
- member of
- Accademia di San Luca
- Commons category
- Cy Twombly
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
- name in native language
- Cy Twombly
- birth name
- Edwin Parker
- has works in the collection
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- pseudonym
- Twombly, Edwin Parker
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Encyclopedic overview
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (/ˈsaɪ ˈtwɒmbli/; April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer.
Twombly influenced artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His best-known works are typically large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. His later paintings and works on paper shifted toward "romantic symbolism", and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. Twombly often quoted poets such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke, and John Keats, as well as classical myths and allegories, in his works. Examples of this are his Apollo and The Artist and a series of eight drawings consisting solely of inscriptions of the word "Virgil".
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