In November Twombly has his first one-person exhibition at The Seven Stairs Gallery in Chicago, arranged by the photographer Aaron Siskind and the curator Noah Goldowsky, and he exhibits paintings completed that summer at Black Mountain College. Twombly also studies photography with Hazel-Frieda Larsen with fellow students Robert Rauschenberg and Dorothea Rockburne, and he makes photographs using a pinhole camera. Motherwell doesn’t comment much on the work of the young Twombly, apart from saying that he has nothing to teach him. He captures Shahn’s attention, becoming his favourite pupil that year. In New York he is able to see the avant-garde shows of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still and Robert Motherwell at Betty Parsons and Samuel Kootz Gallery, as well as the work of Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline at Egan Gallery.Īttends summer and winter semesters at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where Ben Shahn, Robert Motherwell and the poet Charles Olson are artists in residence. During the second semester he meets another young artist, Robert Rauschenberg, with whom he shares the same intellectual interests and goals as an artist. His teachers are Will Barnett, Morris Kantor and Vaclav Vytlacil. On a tuition scholarship, he continues his studies at the Art Students League in New York.
He receives a $ 1000 grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. His teacher, Marion Junkin, immediately recognizes his talent and encourages him to apply for a scholarship at the Art Students League of New York, where she had studied. He visits the Frick Collection in New York to study the old masters.Įnters the newly established department of art at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. The works of Alberto Giacometti and Jean Dubuffet also impress him. Twombly is greatly interested in the Dada movement, Surrealism, the art of Kurt Schwitters, Chaïm Soutine and Lovis Corinth. In the fall he enrolls in the Boston Museum School where German Expressionism is the primary influence. Spends summer in Ogunquit, an art colony in Maine, and in Groveland, Massachusetts. His lectures and studio classes focus on European contemporary art and its history.Īfter graduating from Lexington High School, attends Darlington School for Boys in Rome, Georgia. Daura is a Spanish artist, a refugee in Paris during the Spanish Civil War, who had married a woman from Virginia and come to live in Lexington. From the age of 14 to 18, Twombly attends lectures on painting given by the artist Pierre Daura.
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