Space Ritual No. 1

Date1957

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

Object number60.85

Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann

Exhibition HistoryTaiwan, Republic of China, Taiwan Museum of Art, (organized by the California/International Arts Foundation), June 25 - September 1988 (06/25/1988 - 9/1988) 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 - 4/1960) Seattle, Washington, Seattle World's Fair, Fine Arts Pavilion, "Seattle Art Museum Mark Tobey Exhibition", 1962 (1962) Valparaiso, Indiana, Sloan Galleries, "Art of the Northwest Coast", 1962 (1962) Wenatchee, Washington, Wenatchee Valley College, "Northwest Artists", 1965 (1965) Spokane, Washington, Eastern Washington Historical Society, "Mark Tobey Retrospective", 1968 (1968) Seattle, The Bon Marche, Mark Tobey Paintings From Private Northwest Collectors, April 23-May3, 1969. [Exhibition to benefit The Cornish School of Allied Arts]. 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) Miami, Florida, The Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, "Mark Tobey 1930-1967: A Selection of Works From The Seattle Art Museum", December 1, 1975 - January 29, 1976 (12/01/1975 - 01/29/1976) New York, New York, M. Knoedler, Inc., "Mark Tobey Retrospective", April 10 - May 1, 1976 (04/10/1976 - 05/01/1976) Osaka, Japan, The National Museum of Art, "Pacific Northwest Artists and Japan", October 2 - November 28, 1982. Circuit: Seattle Art Museum, Washington (10/02/1982 - 11/28/1982) Miami, Florida, University of Miami, "Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions, Small Scale and the Development of American Painterly Abstraction", 1940-1965 Lowe Art Museum, 10/26/89-12/3/89 Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 1/6/90-3/5/90 Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 3/25/90-6/13/90 (10/26/1989 - 06/13/1990) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Northwest Traditions", June 29 - December 10, 1978 Circuit: Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 3/19-4/29/79. (06/29/1978 - 04/29/1979)Published ReferencesSeattle Art Museum, "Mark Tobey: A Retrospective Exhibition from Northwest Collections", 1959, cat. # 199 Sloane Galleries, Valparaiso, Indiana, "Art of the Northwest Coast", 1962, cat. # 24 Seattle Art Museum, "Engagement Book", 1968, December 8 - 14 Seattle Art Museum, “Tobey's 80: A Retrospective Exhibition from Northwest Collectors", cat., Intro. By Betty Bowen, 1970, cat. # 70, text, ill. Koenig, John F., "L'Ecole de Seattle", "Informations and Documents", Services Americains d'Information et de Relations Culturelles, # 314, P. 23, January 1972. The Art Gallery, Miami-Dade South, Florida, "Mark Tobey 1930-1967: A Selection of Works from the Seattle Art Museum", cat., Intro. By Willis F. Woods, 1975, cat. # 20, pp. 7, 11. Kingsbury, Martha and Sarah Clark. "Northwest Traditions." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1978, p. 53 The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, "Pacific Northwest Artists and Japan", 1982, cat. # 133, p. 87, ill. p. 87 The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, "Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions", Jeffrey Wechsler, 1988 Balken, Debra Bricker. Mark Tobey: Threading Light. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with the Addison Gallery of American Art, 2017; pp. 114, 128, reproduced pl. 68. Maraldo, John C. "The Aesthetics of Emptiness in Japanese Calligraphy and Abstract Expressionism." In New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics, edited by A. Minh Nguyen. Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 346, reproduced fig. 23.6.

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Dimensions29 1/4 × 37 7/16 in. (74.3 × 95.1 cm)

MediumSumi ink on paper