Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1956 to lower left, retains Weatherspoon Art Gallery and Dwan Gallery, LA labels to verso and profile, framed.

Frame dimensions 52.5x 42.75 in.

Deaccessioned from and being sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro

Gifted to Weatherspoon by Virginia Dwan of Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, who acquired it from the artist in December of 1960.


Stanley Twardowicz was an active artist in Detroit and New Jersey, whose abstract and color field work achieved national recognition. His artwork was featured on the cover of Art in America’s “New Talent Annual 1958.” In the 1950s and 60s, his work was included in group exhibitions in various museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Institute. His painting “Number 11–1955” (1955) was included in Recent American Acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (March 14 – April 30, 1957) and exhibited once again in the museum’s celebration of The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation (June 18 – October 5, 1969). Most recently an exhibition of the Stanley's work from 1962–1990 was featured at the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey in the Summer of 2018.

A few scattered areas of stable stress craquelure and a few minor scuffs, uneven varnish, else good condition.