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Jack Tworkov
American, 1900-1982
LAND, 1954
Signed Tworkov (ll); signed Tworkov, dated 54 and inscribed Land on the reverse of the original canvas
Oil on canvas
56 7/8 x 67 3/4 inches (144.2 x 172.0 cm.)

Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Koenig, New York

Exhibited:
New York, The Whitney Museum, Jack Tworkov: Retrospective Exhibition, March 25-May 3, 1964, travelling exhibition: Washington, DC, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, May 8-June 21; Pasadena, CA, Pasadena Art Museum, July 6-August 16; San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Museum of Art, Reg. no. 64-65-2, August 31-October 4; Austin, TX, University Art Museum, University of Texas, Exhibition Program 2.12; Minneapolis, MN, Walker Art Center, January 4 - February 7, 1965; Waltham, MA, Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, February 22-April 4

Illustrated:
Finkelstein, Louis, "Tworkov: Radical Pro," Art News 63 (April 1964), Figure 5.

"In such paintings as Water Game, Pink Mississippi, Cradle, Transverse and others the mood is anything but lyrical --if I take lyrical to mean singing, subjective, moody. The central image of these paintings [is] an action brought near by a telescope but out of earshot, silent and meaningless. In a thicket the actors might be lovers, or a murderer and his victim --the anxiety is that of silence of an action without sound, without meaning. When the spectator identifies himself as one of the actors he wakes up screaming and nothing is there... I see an opposition between action and time, as between life and death.
I see action from a distance as action in stillness. The thing in flight is silent. The bang comes from the object hitting the target. My painting is a painting of motion before the collision --its anxiety comes from being before the collision. My painting is always a work of long progression of action absorbed by time. The scene of the pictures is artificially near as if brought close by a telescope --an action seen but out of earshot." Jack Tworkov, "Notes 54-63" from an upcoming book, The Extreme of the Middle: Writings by Jack Tworkov, edited by Mira Schor.
Estimate $40,000-60,000

Lined. Repaired tear 3 1/2 - 4 inches long in the center, approximately 13 inches from the top edge. Extermely well repaired (possibly by the artist himself) have to look for it with the naked eye. Two small paint losses in the central grayish-green "oval." Inscribed FOLLOWING INSCRIPTION APPEARS ON THE REVERSE OF THE ORIGINAL CANVAS:
TWORKOV "LAND"/54/57 X 68