Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.

E862994

Edwin Parker Twombly Jr., better known as Cy Twombly, was an influential American painter renowned for his large-scale, calligraphic, and graffiti-like abstract works that bridged Abstract Expressionism and contemporary art.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Edwin Parker Twombly Jr. canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (67)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
painter
visual artist
alsoKnownAs Cy Twombly
awardReceived Praemium Imperiale for painting
linked to: Praemium Imperiale
birthName Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.
causeOfDeath cancer
child Cyrus Alessandro Twombly
linked to: Alessandro Twombly
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1928-04-25
dateOfDeath 2011-07-05
educatedAt Art Students League of New York
Black Mountain College
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
familyName Twombly
fieldOfWork abstract painting
drawing
sculpture
givenName Edwin
hasSignature Cy Twombly
influenced contemporary abstract painters
postmodern artists
influencedBy European classical antiquity
linked to: Classical antiquity

Jackson Pollock
Paul Klee
Surrealism
militaryService United States Army
movement Abstract Expressionism
contemporary art
neo-expressionism
postwar art
name Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.
notableFor calligraphic mark-making
graffiti-like scrawls
integration of drawing and painting
large-scale abstract paintings
use of classical and literary references
notableWork Bacchus series
Fifty Days at Iliam
Leda and the Swan
The Four Seasons
occupation draftsman
painter
sculptor
placeOfBirth Lexington, Virginia, United States
placeOfDeath Rome, Italy
linked to: Rome
residence Gaeta, Italy
linked to: Gaeta

Lexington, Virginia, United States
New York City, United States
linked to: New York City

Rome, Italy
linked to: Rome
servedIn United States Army
sexOrGender male
spouse Tatiana Franchetti
studiedUnder Franz Kline
Robert Motherwell
style calligraphic abstraction
gestural abstraction
scribble-based composition
theme classical mythology
eros and violence
history and memory
language and writing
workFeaturedIn Art Institute of Chicago
Centre Pompidou, Paris
linked to: Centre Pompidou

Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Tate Modern, London
linked to: Tate Modern

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cy Twombly birthName Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.
Edwin Parker Twombly Jr. name Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.
Edwin Parker Twombly Jr. birthName Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.
Cy Twombly givenName Edwin Parker Twombly Jr.
subject linked to: Cy