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Title:Adagio
Artist:Jack Tworkov (American (born Poland), Biala Podlaska 1900–1982 Provincetown, Massachusetts)
Date:1953
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:80 x 28 in. (203.2 x 71.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Anonymous Gift, 1955
Accession Number:55.82
anonymous (until 1955; their gift to MMA)
New York. Egan Gallery. "Jack Tworkov: Paintings and Drawings, 1951–1954," March 16–April 10, 1954, no catalogue.
American Embassy, Moscow. "American Painting, 1830–1970," opened June 1974, no. 21.
Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux. "Profil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York: de Ramsès à Picasso," May 15–September 1, 1981, no. 229.
San Diego Museum of Art. "5,000 Years of Art from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 10–December 6, 1981, brochure no. 71.
Urbana-Champaign. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois. "5,000 Years of Art from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 3–February 28, 1982, brochure no. 71.
Mobile, Ala. Fine Arts Museum of the South. "5,000 Years of Art from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 28–May 9, 1982, brochure no. 71.
Midland, Mich. Midland Center for the Arts. "5,000 Years of Art from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 6–August 22, 1982, brochure no. 71.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "5,000 Years of Art from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 19–November 14, 1982, brochure no. 71.
New York. Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College. "Reclaiming Artists of the New York School: Toward a More Inclusive View of the 1950s," March 18–April 22, 1994, no. 26.
Southampton, N. Y. Parrish Art Museum. "Dark Images, Bright Prospects: The Survival of the Figure After World War II. An Exhibition in Collaboration with Southampton Public Schools," February 9–March 29, 1997, unnumbered cat. (p. 49).
New York. UBS Art Gallery. "Jack Tworkov, Against Extremes: Five Decades of Painting," August 13–October 27, 2009, unnum. brochure.
William S. Lieberman inProfil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York: de Ramsès à Picasso. Exh. cat., Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux. Bordeaux, 1981, p. 177, no. 229, ill.
Lowery S. Sims inProfil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York: de Ramsès à Picasso. Exh. cat., Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux. Bordeaux, 1981, p. 167.
Eugene Victor Thaw. "The Abstract Expressionists." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 44 (Winter 1986–87), p. 49, fig. 40 (color).
Glen MacLeod. Painting in Poetry, Poetry in Painting: Wallace Stevens and Modern Art. Exh. cat., Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College. New York, 1995, p. 20.
Jack Tworkov (American (born Poland), Biala Podlaska 1900–1982 Provincetown, Massachusetts)
1949
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