Jack Tworkov
Jack Tworkov | |
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Born | Yakov Tworkovsky 15 August 1900 Biała Podlaska, Poland |
Died | 4 September 1982 Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States | (aged 82)
Nationality | American |
Education | National Academy of Design, Art Students League of New York |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Abstract expressionism |
Jack Tworkov (15 August 1900 – 4 September 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter.
Early life and education
Yakov Tworkovsky,[1] was born in Biała Podlaska on the border between Poland and the Russian Empire. His father was a tailor who immigrated to the United States in the early 1910s to set up the family tailoring business in New York City. In 1913, Tworkov, his mother, and younger sister travelled to New York through Ellis Island. Upon arriving to America, both children changed their names, Yakov became Jack, and his sister Schenehaia became Janice Biala. Tworkov enrolled in the American public school system.
Tworkov was initially uninterested in painting and instead attended
Career
In 1924, he joined friends
In 1929 America entered into the great depression; following the economic collapse President
During his lifetime, Tworkov taught at several institutions, including the
Tworkov is regarded[by whom?] as an important and influential artist, along with Rothko, de Kooning, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, and Pollock, whose gestural paintings of the early 1950s formed the basis for the abstract expressionist movement in America. Major work from this period is characterized by the use of gestural brush strokes in flame-like color. His work transitioned during the mid-1960s. Straight lines and geometric patterns characterize his later art work. Wedding Flags of 1965, included in the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, NY, is a transitional painting that combines both abstract expressionism and geometric abstraction.[3]
Despite being credited as one of the founders of the New York School, Tworkov's later works of art diverged from this style of painting. After the 1950s one can see from Tworkov's art that he takes a more geometric approach to his work; this is easily identifiable by his artwork specifically Indian Red Series #2 (1979). Tworkov's experiments with geometric shapes were largely inspired by basic geometry and number systems, as well as the well known
What was formerly the UBS Art Gallery in New York exhibited five decades of Tworkov's work in the 2009 show Against Extremes, "a tantalizing historical survey" charting everything from his de Kooning roots to his omnipresent "dream of freedom".[4]
Tworkov died in 1982 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He was 82.
See also
References
- ^ "Jack Tworkov | Chronology". Estate of Jack Tworkov. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
- ^ a b "yt/modjacot". www.museumoffamilyhistory.com. Archived from the original on 2019-05-19. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ^ "Wedding Flags, Empire State Plaza Art Collection".
- ^ John Yau, Jack Tworkov: "Against Extremes: Five Decades of Painting", Brooklyn Rail, October 2009, [1] Archived 2013-06-24 at the Wayback Machine
- [2] Brooklyn Rail, October 2009
- Official Website for the Estate of Jack Tworkov
- ART USA NOW Ed. by Lee Nordness;Vol.1, (The Viking Press, Inc., 1963.) pp. 90–93
- Fred Laberge, "The Art of the Blues", Yale Alumni Magazine, May 1993
- [3] Alexander Gray Associates
- [4] Artnet
Catalogs
- Edward Bryant; Jack Tworkov: Whitney Museum of American Art Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY ©1964. OCLC: 7607995
- Jack Tworkov; Andrew Forge; ISBN 978-0-89207-033-6
- ISBN 0-943836-08-5
- Elizabeth Frank; Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY Jack Tworkov: Paintings from 1930 to 1981 © 1991.
- Alston Conley; Boston College Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, MA; Jack Tworkov 1935-1982: An Abstract Expressionist Inventing Form © 1994
- Jack Tworkov; Mitchell-Innes & Nash and Ameringer Howard Yohe Gallery, Jack Tworkov : red, white and blue Publisher: Mitchell-Innes & Nash : Ameringer/Howard/Yohe, 2002. ISBN 978-0-9713844-4-6
- Debra Bricker Balken; ISBN 0-9777686-0-0