Jack Tworkov

1900-1982

American abstract expressionist painter

He was not interested in art at all during school. He went to Columbia to become a writer. He kept going with writing till his sister told him to go to Art student League of NY. He also went to National Academy of Design NY.

Him and 2 other creatives spent time in the Catskills.

During the Great Depression he worked for the Federal Art Project Division of the Work Projects Administration where he met De Kooning and learned more about Abstract Expressionism.

Him, De Kooning, Rothko, Pollock and Arshile Gorky founded the NYS.

During his life he became a teacher at a few places such as Pratt, Black Mountain, Yale.