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James Watson Twitty American, (1911-1994) "Amsterdam", 1963 oil / mixed media collage on canvas signed left edge. Exhibited: The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Jacques Seligmann Galleries. James W. Twitty, 83, a retired Air Force colonel who later became an artist known for geometric abstract landscapes, died Oct. 12 at Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, N.C., of complications related to kidney failure. Col. Twitty taught art at the Corcoran Gallery and at George Washington University, and his paintings were displayed at the Corcoran, the Franz Bader Gallery and the Pyramid Galleries in Washington. His work was known in the artistic community for its highly personalized form of scenic abstraction and for innovative techniques with colors and paints. He lived and painted in Washington from 1962 until moving to Pinehurst in 1985. During that period, he was an exchange professor at Leeds College of Art in England, and his work was exhibited at one-man shows in Dallas, Houston, Miami, Switzerland and England. Col. Twitty was born in Mount Vernon, N.Y. He began his military career in 1936 and served as a training and personnel officer during World War II. After the war, he served in Germany, Okinawa, California and Florida, where he retired as commander of Homestead Air Force Base in 1958. On retiring from the Air Force, Col. Twitty traveled in Europe for a year, then studied at the Art Students League in New York for two years before moving to Washington. His marriage to the former Florence Adele King ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Anne Marsh Butler Twitty of Pinehurst; two sons from his first marriage, James W. Twitty Jr. of Inverness, Fla., and Gary Lee Twitty of Foster City, Calif.; two sisters, Adele T. Floyd of Greensboro, N.C., and Elizabeth T. Underill of Melbourne, Fla.; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Source: "Col. James W. Twitty Dies," Obituary, The Washington Post, October 14, 1994, Web, Jun. 2017