



Captiva
1991
A mixed-media work on paper featuring Twombly's characteristic gestural scrawls in graphite, crayon, and blue wax crayon, with a small collaged photograph of a white heron or egret affixed near the upper center. Inscriptions including 'Captiva,' numbers, and the artist's signature situate the work within his Captiva Island series, where the natural environment of the Florida barrier island deeply influenced his mark-making. The dynamic diagonal strokes and spiraling blue passages evoke wind, water, and movement, while the collaged photographic element anchors the composition in observed nature.
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