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Tworkov

American  
[twawr-kof] / ˈtwɔr kɒf /

noun

  1. Jack, 1900–82, U.S. painter, born in Poland.


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Her teacher Jack Tworkov, an abstract expressionist, introduced her to experimental young artists including Claes Oldenburg and Robert Rauschenberg, whose work opened Ms. Bartlett to new directions in modern art.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2022

Tworkov is one of scores who come bearing aperçus in the German American writer and artist Edith Schloss’s memoir, “The Loft Generation,” discovered in rough-draft form after her death in 2011.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

And, according to LaRosa, there are Josef Albers paintings in Jill Biden’s office, while the Vermeil Room features abstract paintings by Alma Thomas and Jack Tworkov as well as two Roy Lichtenstein prints.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2021

A photocopy of the guest list for a 1967 dinner party he gave, which brought Mark Rothko, Jack Tworkov, John Ashbery and Robert Lowell to the same table, attests to that preference.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2012

"Peter is very, very serious about Zen practice," says Helen Tworkov, author of Zen in America and editor in chief of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

From Time Magazine Archive

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