Artist Cy Twombly died in Rome yesterday at the age of 83, leaving behind a catalog of work spanning some fifty years. The Times has a full obituary today, but here are the highlights, and some pointers on where to go to see Twombly's transfixing, large-scale paintings and sculptures here in New York.

Over the course of his career, Twombly "slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism." He befriended Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg but moved to Italy in 1957, just as the art world was shifting its focus from Europe to New York. Twombly's paintings resembled "spare childlike scribbles," oftentimes incorporating graffiti and calligraphy, which would later inspire artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat. "Twombly is the thinking person's Banksy," declared one critic recently, adding "Cy Twombly is the only graffiti artist I care about."

Twombly was fastidiously private and famously press-shy, even as museums began to launch career-spanning retrospectives of his work. He wrote exactly one statement about his work, in 1957, writing that his art was "elementally human." Here are a few places to see the artist's work up close and personal: