Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes

Lecture w/ Curator Jason Andrew
Jack Tworkov is regarded as one of the seminal
figures of American art; his gestural paintings
and dramatic mark-making helped define the
Abstract Expressionist movement in America,
along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston,
Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline.
Tworkov was a fixture in the Provincetown art
colony of the 1920s, where he befriended artists
Ross Moffett, Karl Knaths, and Edwin Dickinson.
Over the course of his life, Tworkov painted
masterpieces inspired by the solace and
solitude he found on Cape Cod. Tworkov died at
his home in Provincetown in 1982. In 1983,
PAAM held a memorial exhibition in his honor,
featuring a selection of the artist’s late paint-
ings.
Join Jason Andrew, Curator of the Estate of
Jack Tworkov, for a lecture on Tworkov’s life in
Provincetown. Rare photographs of the artist’s
life and work will be presented, along with
excerpts from the artist’s journals and personal
letters-including letters from Willem de
Kooning and Hans Hofmann, among others. This
lecture is held in conjunction with the
artist’s first comprehensive survey of five-
decades of painting; the exhibition first
opened in New York in August 2009, and will
be on view at PAAM July 9-August 22.