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Cy Twombly

1928 - 2011

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Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. Twombly influenced artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cy Twombly has received more than 1,601,616 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Cy Twombly is the 694th most popular painter (down from 470th in 2019), the 2,250th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,596th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Cy Twombly ranks 694 out of 2,023Before him are Osman Hamdi Bey, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Francesc Ribalta, Hans Bellmer, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, and Joseph-Marie Vien. After him are Mikhail Nesterov, Reza Abbasi, Dong Yuan, Paul Gavarni, Herri met de Bles, and Eugene de Blaas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Cy Twombly ranks 134Before him are Yaacov Agam, Christa Ludwig, Roddy McDowall, Humberto Maturana, Juan María Bordaberry, and Héctor Rial. After him are James Randi, Victor Stănculescu, Joseph Kittinger, Ulric Neisser, Einojuhani Rautavaara, and Vidal Sassoon. Among people deceased in 2011, Cy Twombly ranks 93Before him are Farley Granger, Harold Garfinkel, Juan María Bordaberry, Danielle Mitterrand, Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, and Saad el-Shazly. After him are Frans Sammut, Ján Popluhár, Robert Brout, Jesús María Pereda, Loriot, and Eugene Nida.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cy Twombly ranks 2,250 out of 20,380Before him are Charles Eames (1907), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), William M. Branham (1909), Henry Bergman (1868), John Landis (1950), and Carl Wieman (1951). After him are Robert Silverberg (1935), Terry O'Quinn (1952), James Rothman (1950), Joe Perry (1950), Djuna Barnes (1892), and Henry Murray (1893).

Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Cy Twombly ranks 22Before him are Margaret Keane (1927), Jasper Johns (1930), Frank Stella (1936), Carl Andre (1935), John Frederick Kensett (1816), and Thomas Eakins (1844). After him are Julian Schnabel (1951), Bruce Nauman (1941), Donald Judd (1928), Cindy Sherman (1954), Dorothea Tanning (1910), and Asher Brown Durand (1796).