The Gift of Drawing: Cy Twombly

This presentation features twenty-seven works from a gift to the museum by the Cy Twombly Foundation. The works highlighted in the exhibition cover thirty years of the artist’s activity, from the 1950s to the 1980s and feature a broad range of materials, from graphite to oil paint; techniques such as drawing and collage; and themes that are fundamental to his entire practice, such as classical antiquity, eroticism, and nature.

The works in this show, a number of which will be on view for the first time, include a series of abstract landscapes from the 1980s, two untitled works from 1970 that resemble the artist’s “blackboard paintings” on view at the Cy Twombly Gallery, and Narcissus, 1975, a collage of paper, with oil, charcoal, and wax crayon on paper with the title of the work written in large capital letters across the bottom.