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Cy Twombly Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Cy Twombly available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
8 works online when last checked
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Note I, 1967
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Cy Twombly at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Cy Twombly
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Untitled
Broad Art Foundation
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Untitled, 1959
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Untitled, ca.1953
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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Cy Twombly in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Untitled
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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11 works by Cy Twombly online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Untitled (see top row)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Untitled. What?, 1959
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Cy Twombly at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Menil Collection, Texas
Information about the Menil's Cy Twombly Gallery
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Synopsis of a Battle, 1968
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Cy Twombly in the Artchive
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The BBC
cy twombly, serpentine gallery
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
ARTnews
Named as one of "The 10 Most Expensive Living Artists"
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Art Story
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"His scattered dreams", 2008 article by Adrian Searle
The New York Observer
"Why Give So Much Space To Lightweight Twombly?", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Cy Twombly at the Whitney", 2005 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The Village Voice
"Solar Power", 2001 article by Jerry Saltz
Time Magazine
"The Grafitti of Loss", 1994 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Coronation of Sesostris
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