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Gothic

Date1943

Maker Mark Tobey American, born Centerville, Wisconsin, 1890; died Basel, Switzerland, 1976

Object number75.35

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, "Night Sounds: Nocturnal Visions of Mark Tobey and Morris Graves - A Northwest Summer", May 4, 2006 - October 15, 2006 (5/4/2006 - 10/15/2006) Osaka, Japan, the National Museum of Art, "Pacific Northwest Artists and Japan", October 2 - November 28, 1982. Circuit: Seattle Art Museum, WA. (10/02/1982 - 11/28/1982) Dusseldorf, Germany, Kunsthalle, "American Art Between The Wars", June 10 - December 31, 1979. Circuit: Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium. (06/10/1979 - 12/31/1979) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Northwest Traditions", June 29 - December 10, 1978. Circuit: Des Moines Art Center, IA, 3/19-4/29/79. (06/29/1978 - 04/29/1979) Boston, Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art, "Northwest Visionaries", July 7 - June 8, 1981. (07/07/1981 - 06/08/1981) Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, "Mark Tobey, 1945". Circuit: San Francisco Museum of Art, CA, 1945, Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, 1946. (1945 - 1946) San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings By Mark Tobey", March 31 - May 6, 1951. Circuit: Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 5/20 - 6/27/51, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 8/16-9/9/51, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10/4-11/4/51. (03/31/1951 - 11/04/1951) Houston, Texas, Contemporary Arts Association of Houston, "Three Modern Calligraphers", 1956 (1956 - 1956) United States Information Agency, "Eight American Artists", organized and shown by the Seattle Art Museum, 1957. Circuit: Copenhagen; Frankfurt; Berlin; Nuremberg; Munich; Hamburg; Essen; London; York; Bordeaux; Paris; St. Etienne; OR Seoul; Taegu; Tokyo; Kyoto; Magoya; Matsuyama; Hiroshima; Osaka; Sapporo; Manila; Wellington; Auckland; Melbourne; Sidney; 1957-58. (1957 - 1958) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Mark Tobey: A Retrospective Exhibition From Northwest Collections", September 11 - November 1, 1959. Circuit: Portland Art Museum, OR, 12/59-1/60, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Co, 1/60-2/60, Pasadena Art Museum, CA, 2/60-3/60, M. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, 3/60-4/60. (09/11/1959 - 04/30/1960) Paris, France, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, (Palais du Louvre, Parcuit: The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1/31-3/4/62; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 1962. (10/18/1961 - 1962) New York, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Mark Tobey", September 12 - November 4, 1962. Circuit: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 12/11/62 - 1/13/63, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 2/22 - 3/24/63. (09/12/1962 - 03/24/1963) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, "Mark Tobey, Werke", 1933-1966, March 19 - May 8, 1966. Circuit: Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, West Germany, 5/19-6/26/66, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, 7/9-9/4/66, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlands und Westfalen Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany, 9/16-10/23/66. (03/19/1966 - 05/08/1966) Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, "Mark Tobey Retrospective", March 20 - April 21, 1968. (03/20/1968 - 04/21/1968) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Tobey's 80: A Retrospective Exhibition From Northwest Collectors", December 3, 1970 - January 31, 1971. (12/03/1970 - 01/31/1971) New York, New York, M. Knoedler, Inc., "Mark Tobey Retrospective" April 10 - May 1, 1976. (04/10/1976 - 05/01/1976) Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, "Mark Tobey", November 11, 1997 - January 12, 1998 Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Mark Tobey: Threading Light, November 4, 2017-March 11, 2018 (Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, May 6-September 17, 2017). Text by Debra Bricker Balkan. No cat. no., pp. 34, 192, reproduced p. 25, pl. 10. Published ReferencesNacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Mark Tobey", November, 1997, p. 169. Petersen, Art, Column V, late May - June 1988. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Mark Tobey: City Paintings", Eliza Rathbone, 1984, p. 52 and p. 73 note 23. Dahl, Arthur L., et al, "Mark Tobey: Art And Belief", George Ronald, Oxford: 1984, pl. # 37, p. 72, ill. 72. Seitz, William C., "Abstact Expressionist Painting In America", Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, for National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.: 1983, fig. # 248, pp. 13-14, 489, ill. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, "Pacific Northwest Artists and Japan", 1982, cat. # 17, p. 88, ill. p. 89. Kingsbury, Martha and Sarah Clark. "Northwest Traditions." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1978, p. 50 Seattle Art Museum, "Tobey's 80: A Retrospective Exhibition", cat., Intro. by Betty Bowen, 1970, cat. # 46, text, ill. Seattle Art Museum, "Christimas 1970 From YThe Seattle Art Museum", gift shop catalogue, 1970, cover illustration. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX, MARK TOBEY RETROSPECTIVE, cat., Intro. by Merrill C. Rueppel, 1968, cat. # 21, ill. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, MARK TOBEY, 1966, cat. # 12. Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, MARK TOBEY: WERKE 1933-1966, 1966. Kestner-Gessellschaft, Hannover, West Germany, MARK TOBEY, Wieland Schied, Katalog 5 Ausstellungsjahr 1965/66, cat. # 12, p. 40, ill. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Mark Tobey", William Seitz, 1962, cat. # 24, pp. 19, 58, 107, ill. p. 58 Whitechapel Gallery, London, "Mark Tobey: A Retrospective Exhibition Paintings and Drawings 1925-1961", 1962, cat. # 21, p. 21, ill. Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France, "Mark Tobey", 1961, cat. # 31, ill. pl. 11. [Includes bibliography] Seattle Art Museum, "Mark Tobey: A Retrospective Exhibition From Northwest Collections", circuit cat., 1960, cat. # 44. Seattle Art Museum, "Mark Tobey: A Retrospective Exhibition From Northwest Collections", 1959, cat. # 90. National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, "8 American Artists" , 1958, cat. Tobey #5. United States Information Agency, "Twentieth Century Highlights of American Painting", (exhibition conducted by the Meltzer Gallery - no mention of other exhibitors), Dorothy Adlow, 1958, cat. # 21, ill. p. 50. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Mark Tobey: Retrospective Exhibition", 1951, cat. # 31, ill. Balken, Debra Bricker. Mark Tobey: Threading Light. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with the Addison Gallery of American Art, 2017; p. 35,192, reproduced pl. 10.

Credit LineBequest of Berthe Poncy Jacobson

Dimensions28 1/4 x 22 in. (71.8 x 55.9 cm)

MediumInk and opaque and transparent watercolor on Crescent wood pulp board, 28 1/4 x 22 in.