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Cy Twombly (Edwin Parker Twombly Jr., born 1928 in Lexington / VA, died 2011 in Rome) studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Washington & Lee University, the Art Students League in New York, the Black Mountain College and the American Academy, Institute of Arts and Letters. He is one of the best-known representatives of the American "Abstract Expressionism ", who developed an gestural style using writing-like signs on large format canvases.