Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper

Jan 27–May 8, 2005

Chaotic pencil and colored-pencil scribbles and doodles scattered across a large cream sheet of paper.
Chaotic pencil and colored-pencil scribbles and doodles scattered across a large cream sheet of paper.

Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1964. Graphite, colored pencil and crayon on paper, sheet (Sight): 28 1/2 × 39 3/4 in. (72.4 × 101 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee 84.21. © Cy Twombly Foundation

Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper was organized by Hermitage Projects, St. Petersburg, Russia. The New York installation was organized by Dana Miller. The American tour was coordinated by the Whitney Museum of American Art.


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