Tworkov

Her teacher Jack Tworkov, an abstract expressionist, introduced her to experimental young artists including Claes Oldenburg and Robert Rauschenberg, whose work opened Ms. Bartlett to new directions in modern art.

But none had quite the dramatic vision of Jack Tworkov, the abstract expressionist painter, in the middle of the previous century.

Tworkov is one of scores who come bearing aperçus in the German American writer and artist Edith Schloss’s memoir, “The Loft Generation,” discovered in rough-draft form after her death in 2011.

His father, Rudy Burckhardt, a filmmaker and photographer whose cityscapes had drawn Tworkov’s gaze, is here just another entrant in a Who’s Who of art-world characters, cataloged in a 16-page glossary accompanied by a photo of a list scribbled by Schloss: “famous people whose hand my little hand has shaken.”

And, according to LaRosa, there are Josef Albers paintings in Jill Biden’s office, while the Vermeil Room features abstract paintings by Alma Thomas and Jack Tworkov as well as two Roy Lichtenstein prints.