By special arrangement with the publisher ~
Collector’s Edition of 25
Includes a signed copy of the trade edition
plus a handmade cyanotype,
“113 West Nelson Street, Lexington, Virginia (2012),”
signed and numbered.

STUDIO NOTES – My Time with Cy
Photographs by Rob McDonald
Text by Sam Stephenson
Essay by Thierry Greub

For the last twenty years of his life, Cy Twombly returned often to Lexington, his hometown in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. During extended visits, he created significant works in modest rented studios. Otherwise, he filled his days observing the rhythms of the tiny college town, taking long reflective drives in the countryside, and spending time with a small circle of acquaintances. One of those was photographer Rob McDonald. STUDIO NOTES features photographs McDonald made inside Twombly’s final storefront studio in Lexington in 2007-08, as well as images made at site of Black Mountain College where he made some of his earliest important work. What emerges is an intimate study of ordinary spaces that quietly sheltered the genius of one of the world’s great artists.

24,5 x 18,5 cm, 88 pages
67 illustrations, black and white
Softcover with flaps
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne
Fall 2024
ISBN 978-3-7533-0711-4

Published with generous support from the Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome