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Seated Japanese Figure
Seated Japanese Figure

Seated Japanese Figure

Date1934
Maker Mark Tobey American, born Centerville, Wisconsin, 1890; died Basel, Switzerland, 1976
Object number40.67
ProvenancePurchased from the Artist, Seattle Art Museum Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle, Washington, 1940
Exhibition HistoryVictoria, British Columbia, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, "Works On Paper By Mark Tobey", January 14 - March 20, 1983. (01/14/1983 - 03/20/1983) 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 - 4/1960) Seattle World's Fair, Fine Arts Pavilion, "Seattle Art Museum Mark Tobey Exhibition", 1962 (1962) Chicago, Illinois, The Arts Club, "Drawings 1916/1966", 1966 (196) 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)
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
DimensionsSheet h.: 14 3/4 in. Sheet w.: 11 1/2 in. Overall h.: 29 3/16 in. Overall w.: 23 1/8 in.
MediumInk on Japan paper
Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence
Object number: SC2006.55
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Mark Tobey
Object number: 2006.88
Man Seated on a Stool at a Counter
Mark Tobey
1941
Object number: 41.75
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Mark Tobey
1932
Object number: 63.179
View of Figures by Stalls
Mark Tobey
1941
Object number: 41.68
Figure Standing By Railing over Stairway
Mark Tobey
1941
Object number: 41.70
Four Figures Stooping over a Bin
Mark Tobey
1941
Object number: 41.77
Group of Figures Looking into a Bin
Mark Tobey
1941
Object number: 41.78
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Mark Tobey
1934
Object number: 2017.19.1
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Mark Tobey
1962
Object number: 77.7
No. 2, Sumi Studies, (Two Sheets)
Mark Tobey
1957
Object number: 86.102