Continuing on my New York School reading binge, I recently finished The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov. Superbly edited by Mira Schor, this collection of his writing, from published works to more private musing in journals and letters, comes highly recommended.

• Fever Charts: On Jack Tworkov

• Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes: Five Decades of Painting

• Mira Schor and Jason Andrew with Phong Bui

• Official site of the Estate of Jack Tworkov

• ARTnews, May 1953: Tworkov Paints a Picture

“My hope is to confront the picture without a ready technique or prepared attitude—a condition which is nevertheless never completely attainable; to have no program and, necessarily then, no preconceived style. To paint no Tworkovs.” – Jack Tworkov, from a journal entry dated March 3, 1958