On view now through February 28, 2015 at the Lawrence A. Gleischman Gallery at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, is an exciting exhibition featuring diaries of famous artists including Oscar Bluemner, Joseph Cornell, Helen Torr Dove, Blanche Lazzell, Charles Green Shaw, John Storrs, Karl and Marion Zerbe, and Jack Tworkov among others.
Read MoreThis fall, a major work by Jack Tworkov will be auctioned at Sotheby's New York. Painted in 1957-58, "Queen II," is a signature example of Tworkov's Abstract Expressionist period. To mark the appearance of such work of this rarity, Jason Andrew, Manager/Curator of the Estate of Jack Tworkov offers a brief history of the painting and it's relationship to it's time and place.
Read MorePublished in Art News in May 1953, this article features Tworkov speaking candidly about a new series of paintings titled "House of the Sun." Written by Fairfield Porter with photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, it was one of the first articles in an important new series titled "Paints a Picture." The series was commissioned by the then editor of Art News, Thomas B. Hess and included features with Hans Hoffman, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell and Jackson Pollock among others.
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