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Cy Twombly Gallery

1501 Branard St, Houston, Texas 77006 USA

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“experience European cultural climates both intellectual and aesthetic”

In 1948 Twombly attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, developing an interest in aspects of Dada and Surrealism, especially the art of Kurt Schwitters and Alberto Giacometti.  After a year at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, he moved to New York City to study at the Art Students’ League, where he first met Robert Rauschenberg.  Encouraged by his fellow artist, Twombly enrolled in Black Mountain College near Ashville, North Carolina, where he studied under Franz Kline, Ben Shahn, and Robert Motherwell (who soon came to consider Twombly “the most accomplished young painter and one of the most ‘natural’ artists of his generation”).  That same year, Twombly had his first solo show in New York, at the Kootz Gallery, some saw in Twombly’s work an affinity with Kline’s black-and-white gestural expressionism and with Paul Klee’s innocent, childlike imagery.

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Vlad V.

Cy Twombly Gallery is a hidden gem. It's part of the Menil Collection but barely anyone knows about it because it's in a different building entirely across the street from the Menil and its main... Read more

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It's free. It's quiet. It's not popular, so you can have the place to yourself. If you like Twombly, you'll be happy. Most likely, you don't like Twombly. If so, you can be out of there in five... Read more

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Sun G.

The review I am giving to CYT Gallery is for the building, the interior and how well it presented the work of Cy Twombly. The building is by Renzo Piano, a giant in the architecture community.... Read more

Cy Twombly Gallery

1501 Branard St
Houston, Texas
77006 USA
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