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His last name was misspelled Twombley in a headline on a Remembrances obituary in some editions Wednesday.
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Cy Twombley 1928-2011 Cy Twombly, who created mythically inspired canvasses and drawings that were compared by some to doodles or graffiti, secured a prominent place in the pantheon of modern artists.
Painter Drew Upon Mythology for Singular Abstract Images Stephen Miller 2011
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Thus, for example, the Cy Twombley exhibition at Gagosian, whose proprietor, Larry Gagosian, is most often described in the media as "the most powerful dealer in the world."
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So maybe I can paint that next piece more like Twombley than Porter in spite of what people expect.
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Palladian, thanks for the fighting the good fight for Twombley.
"When I kissed it, I thought the artist would have understood." Ann Althouse 2007
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Steven -- one fact you might want to add to your analysis: Twombley is not a modernist.
"When I kissed it, I thought the artist would have understood." Ann Althouse 2007
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No doubt about it, thought Max, unbuckling Twombley's heavy belt and tightening it around his own slender midsection: an ordinary man, even if he'd managed to get out of the jail in the first place, would almost certainly be captured within minutes.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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“According to Deputy Knapp, you called out to Deputy Twombley to let you out of the cell, that you had everything you needed.”
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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Try to bluff his way through the cordon of security that would surely be thrown up, relying on a deputy sheriff's uniform for camouflage, when they already knew his face, and would realize soon enough that Twombley's uniform had been taken?
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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After locking up the guns and introducing Pender to Frank Twombley and Deena Knapp, the two deputies on duty, Gonzalez led Pender through the office—they were now on the other side of the sliding barred doors—then to the left, down a narrow corridor to the jail's old visiting room, bare save for a single metal bench suspended like a shelf from the back wall.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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