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Self-Portrait

Jack Tworkov

Artwork Details

Self-Portrait
1957
Jack Tworkov
graphite on paper
11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. ( 29.85 x 22.3 cm )
Gift of the Lannan Foundation in Honor of the Pelham Family
1997/1.146

Description

Subject Matter:

Tworkov was one of the founding members of the New York School and fully embraced the Abstract Expressionist movement. Tworkov believed in the importance of sketching and the beauty of its simplicity. He was born in Poland in 1900 and moved permanently to the United States in 1913. 

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