Cy Twombly was born on April 25, 1928, in Lexington, Virginia. He died on July 5, 2011, in Rome, Italy.
He studied at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA; Black Mountain College in Black Mountain, NC;
School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, MA; and at the Art Students League in New York City, NY.
The art of Cy Twombly is or has been exhibited in museums including but not necessarily limited to the following:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Tate Gallery, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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