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Jack Tworkov

(American, 1900–1982)

Jack Tworkov

Wednesday, 1959

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Jack Tworkov

Study for Script I , 1962

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Jack Tworkov

Untitled, ca. 1960

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Jack Tworkov

Sketch for Queen, 1957

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Biography

Timeline
Exhibitions

Timeline

1900: Born Biala, Poland
1913: Emigrated to the United States
1923 - 1925: Studied at National Academy of Design
1923: Begins summering in Provincetown, MA
1928: Becomes a United States citizen. Member of New England Society of Contemporary Art
1934: Works on the Federal Art Project of the WPA (Easel Division), New York. Begins long association with Willem de Kooning
1948 - 1953: Shares adjoining studios with Willem de Kooning
1949: Becomes a member of "The Club" and "New York School"
1952: Teaches Black Mountain College, NC
1963: Appointed Chairman of the Art Department Yale University
1971: Doctor of Fine Arts, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
1972: Doctor of Human Letters, Columbia University, New York
1974: Medal for Painting, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
1976: Distinguished Teaching Art Award, College Art Association of America, New York, NY
1979: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1981: Elected member American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1982: Dies Provincetown, MA

Exhibitions

2010: Early Figuratives by Jack Tworkov from the 1940's and 1950's (directly from The Estate of Jack Tworkov), Open Art, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
: Le Grand Geste, Sammlung Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany
2009: American Contemporary Gallery, Munich (solo)
: Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes/Five Decades, UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY
2008 - 2009: Peggy Guggenheim e la nuova pittura Americana, ARCA, Ex-Chiesa di San Marco, Vercelli, Italy
2008: The Late Paintings of Jack Tworkov, ACME Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2007: Jack Tworkov: Rythm, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY
2006: Jack Tworkov: Paintings 1929-1949, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 - 2006: Ecole de New York – Expressionisme abstrait américain – oeuvres sur papier, Galerie contemporaine du musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain, MAMAC Nice, France (cat.)
: Ecole de New York, MAMAC Nice, France
2005: Ecole de New York: Expressionnisme abstrait Americain, Musee d'Art, Moderne, Nice
2001: Jack Tworkov, Ameringer/Howard/Yohe Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
: Conrad Marca-Relli, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
: Jack Tworkov: Works from 1940-1966, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)
2000: (to Present) Jack Tworkov, Mitchell-Innes and Nash
1998: Twentieth Century American Drawings, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, traveling exhibition
1994: Jack Tworkov, Manny Silverman, Los Angeles, CA
1990 - 1992: Jack Tworkov, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
1987: Jack Tworkov, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1982: Jack Tworkov, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1981: American Drawing in Black and White: 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
: Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Fine Arts, New York, USA
1979: Art in America after World War IISolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
: Jack Tworkov, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, traveling exhibition to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Academy Gallery, Liverpool, England; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
1976: Jack Tworkov, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, DC
1974 - 1985: Jack Tworkov, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1974: Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis of Art, USA (cat.)
: Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (solo)
1972: Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Fine Arts, New York, USA
1971: Jack Tworkov, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (solo)
1964: Jack Tworkov, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, traveling exhibition to Washington Gallery of Modern Art, DC; San Francisco Museum of Art, CA (solo)
: Recent Paintings by Jack Tworkov, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven (solo)
1962: Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Fine Arts, New York, USA
1961: Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Fine Arts, New York, USA
: The Collection of Mr. And Mrs. Ben Heller, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (cat.)
: Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (solo)
1960: Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Fine Arts, New York, USA
1959: New York and Paris: Painting in the Fifties, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1958 - 1965: Jack Tworkov, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1958 - 1959: The New American Painting as Shown in Eight European Countries, International Program of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (cat.)
1958: The New American Painting, International Program of the Museum of Modern Art New York, NY, traveling exhibition to eight European countries
1957 - 1958: Jack Tworkov, Stable Gallery, New York
: Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Fine Arts, New York, USA
1957: Paintings by Jack Tworkov, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (solo)
1953: Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Fine Arts, New York, USA
1952: American Vanguard Art for Paris, organized by the Sidney Janis Gallery for Galerie de France, Paris
1951: Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Fine Arts, New York, USA
1949: The One Hundred and Forty-Third Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA (cat.)
1948: The One Hundred and Forty-Third Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA (cat.)
: Paintings of Jack Tworkov, Baltimore Museum of Art (solo)
1947 - 1954: Jack Tworkov, Charles Egan Gallery, New York
1941: New Directions in American Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
: Two Hundred American Watercolors, Whitney Museum of Fine Arts, New York (cat.)
1940: Jack Tworkov: Paintings, ACA Gallery, New York
1931 - 1935: Dudensing Gallery, New York
1926 - 1928: Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA

Jack Tworkov

(American, 1900–1982)

Jack Tworkov

Jack Tworkov

Jack Tworkov

Jack Tworkov

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

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