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Universal City

Date1951

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

Object number70.89

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, World House Gallery, 1957 (1957) New York, New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters, "Exhibition of Works by Newly Elected Members" (of the National Institute of Arts and Letters), May 4 - June 24, 1956 (05/04/1956 - 06/24/1956) Washington D. C., St. Albans School, "Mark Tobey", May 20 - June 3, 1959. (05/20/1959 - 06/03/1959) 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, 2/22-3/24/63. (09/12/1962 - 03/24/1963) St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum of St. Louis, "200 Years of American Painting" , Bicentennial, 1964 (1964) Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1965 (1965) Montreal, Canada, International Fine Arts Exhibition, Expo 67, "Man and His World", organized by National Gallery of Canada, April 28 - October 27, 1967 (04/28/1967 - 10/27/1967) 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) Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, "Tribute to Mark Tobey", June 7-September 8, 1974. Circuit: Seattle Art Museum, 1974, St. Louis Art Museum, MO, 1974 (06/07/1974 - 09/08/1974) 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) Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Mark Tobey: City Paintings", March 18-June 17, 1984 (3/18/1984 - 6/17/1984) Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, "Jet Dreams: The Northwest in the Fifties", March 17 - June 4, 1995 (3/17/1995 - 6/4/1995) New York, New York, The American Federation of Arts, "American Vanguards for Paris", 1953 (1953) Polanco, Mexico, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, A.C., "Abstract Expressionism in the United States", 10/10/96-1/12/97 (10/10/1996 - 01/12/1997) Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, "Mark Tobey", November 11, 1997 - January 12, 1998

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Johnson

Dimensions37 1/2 x 25 1/8 in. (95.3 x 63.8 cm) Overall h.: 39 in. Overall w.: 26 5/8 in.

MediumGouache on paper mounted on Masonite