The portfolio is mixed media: lithograph, granolithograph, collotype, with collage and drawings. They were printed in Matthieu's Studio in Zurich, Switzerland, and published by Propylean Verlag in Berln, Germany.
Cy Twombly, born in Lexington, Virginia in 1928, is a contemporary of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Like them, he was part of America's indigenous art moverment, Abstract experssionism. He contributes to its spontaneous gesture, its opening of pictorial space and its acceptance of the matter of paint as the essence of painting. Twombly's pictorial method is close to the "automatic writing" and the psychic improvisation of the surrealist artists, without evoking their figurative subject matter.
Source: DMAC News, MArch/April 1989
Exhibition History"MCM - Y2K: A Century of Art On Paper," Des Moines Art Center, Dec. 11, 1999 - Feb. 13, 2000
Published References"MCM - Y2K: A Century of Art On Paper," Des Moines Art Center, 1999, ref. pp.21 & 28
AN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. & color detail p.276, color ill. p.277
Sheet: 29 7/8 × 22 in. (75.9 × 55.9 cm)
