Cy Twombly, 14 Papers, 1983
Cy Twombly's Lexington is deeply fascinating to me, if also problematic—it's the capital of the cult of the Lost Cause, for one, two, and three things. So I had to dig into what Twombly was doing in Lexington in 1982 or 1985, when he made 14 Papers, a series of drawings at Silverwood, an antebellum mansion that was not his or his family's house.
Cy Twombly, Started at Silverwood [greg.org] 📷: Cy Twombly, Untitled (14 Papers from Silverwood), 1985, from teh collection of Emily Fisher Landau, Sotheby's 2024
















