Resources
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Oct. 1 - Nov. 2, 1941 [entries are limited to new work only, work created within the previous twelve months; hence, this work rightly dates to 1941, despite its 1943 date, added later].
New York, New York, Willard Gallery, Mark Tobey, Apr. 4 - 29, 1944. Text by Sidney Janis. Checklist no. 8 [dated 1942].
Portland, Oregon, Portland Museum of Art, Paintings by Mark Tobey, July 7 - Aug. 12, 1945 (San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sept. 8 - 30, 1945; Chicago, Illinois, Arts Club of Chicago, Feb. 7 - 27, 1946; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Alger House, Mar. 1946). Introduction by Julia and Lyonel Feininger. Cat. no. 20 [lent by the Willard Gallery; dated 1942].
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Little Show of Work in Progress: Six Painters of the American Northwest, 1950 (East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State University, 1950; Albion, Michigan, Albion College, 1950; Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Museum of Cranbook Academy of Arts, 1951; Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, 1951; Saginaw, Michigan, Saginaw Museum, 1951; Flint, Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts, 1951; Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan, 1951; Bloomington, Illinois, Withers Public Library, 1951). {No catalogue?}
Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery of Art Interpretation, Mark Tobey Retrospective, Jan. 21 - Mar. 20, 1955. {there is a checklist—get from AIC}.
San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in the 20th Century: Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Signing of the U.N. Charter, 1955 {there is a catalogue—get from SFMoMA archives Box 18, no. 1955.002, p. 17.}
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, U.S.I.A. European and Pacific Exhibits: Eight American Artists, Jan. 10 - Feb. 3, 1957 (*traveled in the Pacific circuit to fifteen cities in Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand: Seoul, Taegu, Tokyo, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Matsuyama, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Manila, Wellington, Auckland, Victoria (Feb. 18- Mar. 11, 1958), Melbourne, and Sydney, 1957-1958). National Gallery of Victoria cat. no. 3 [dated 1943].
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Mark Tobey: A Retrospective Exhibition from Northwest Collections, Sept. 11 - Nov. 1, 1959 (Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum; Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center; Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum; San Francisco, California, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1959-1960). Cat. no. 64, reproduced [dated 1941].
Paris, France, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Mark Tobey, Oct. 18 - Dec.1, 1961. Cat. no. 20, reproduced pl. 6 [dated 1942].
London, England, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Mark Tobey, Jan. - Feb., 1962. Cat. no. 14, p. 20, reproduced pl. V [dated 1941].
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Mark Tobey, May 6 - June 6, 1962. Cat. no. 3 [dated 1941].
New York, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Mark Tobey, Sept. 12 - Nov. 4, 1962 (Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dec. 11, 1962 - Jan. 13, 1963; Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 22 - Mar. 24, 1963). Text by William C. Seitz. Cat. no. 12, pp. 35, 107, reproduced p. 54 [dated 1941].
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum, Mark Tobey, 1966 (Hannover, Germany, Kestner-Gesellschaft, May 19 - June 26, 1966; Bern, Switzerland, Kunsthalle; Düsseldorf, Germany, Kunsthalle, 1966). Text by Wieland Schmied. Cat. no. 7, p. 40, reproduced [dated 1941].
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Mark Tobey Retrospective, Mar. 20-Apr. 12, 1968. Cat. no. 15, reproduced [dated 1941].
Seattle, Washington, The Bon Marché, Mark Tobey: Paintings from Private Northwest Collectors, Apr. 23 - May 3, 1969. No catalogue.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Tobey’s 80; A Retrospective, Dec. 3, 1970 - Jan. 31, 1971. Text by Betty Bowen. Cat. no. 42, reproduced [dated 1941].
{Basel, Switzerland, Galerie Beyeler, Tobey, 1971. Text by John Russell. Cat. no. 3, reproduced p. 29.}
Düsseldorf, Germany, Städtische Kunsthalle, Surralität-Bildrealität, 1924-1974, Dec. 8, 1974 - Feb. 2, 1975 (Baden-Baden, West Germany, Staatliche Kunsthalle, In den unzähligen Bildern des Lebens, Feb. 14 - Apr. 13, 1975). Text by Jurgen Harten and Katharina Schmidt. Cat. no. 356, reproduced p. 151 [dated 1941].
Miami, Florida, The Art Gallery, Miami-Dade South Community College, Mark Tobey, 1930-1967: A Selection of Works from the Seattle Art Museum, Dec. 1, 1975 - Jan. 29, 1976. Cat. no. 9, reproduced p. 12 [dated 1941].
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Northwest Traditions, June 29 - Dec. 10, 1978. Text by Martha Kingsbury. No. cat. no., reproduced p. 22 [dated 1941].
Osaka, Japan, National Museum of Art, Pacific Northwest Artists and Japan, Oct. 2 - Nov. 28, 1982. Cat. no. 115, reproduced p. 87.
Los Angeles, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, Visions of Inner Spaces, Dec. 15, 1987 - Jan. 31, 1988 (New Delhi, India, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mar. 15 - Apr. 3, 1988). No cat. no., reproduced pl. 14.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Light, Shadow, and Gesture: Paintings by Northwest Artists, Aug. 14, 1997 - Aug. 2, 1998. No catalogue.
Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, What It Meant to be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid Century, Oct. 15, 1999-Jan. 23, 2000. No cat. no., p. 36. [dated ca. 1941].
Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum. Northwest Mythology: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson, May 3 - Aug. 10, 2003. Text by Sheryl Conkelton and Laura Landau. No cat. no., p. 166, reproduced p. 117 [dated ca. 1941].
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and The Mystical, June 19 - Sept. 7, 2014. Text by Patricia Junker. No cat. no., pp. 12-16, 58, reproduced p. 16, pl. 6.
Published ReferencesDevree, Howard. “From a Reviewer’s Notebook: Brief Comment on Some Recently Opened Group and One-Man Shows . . . ,” New York Times, April 9, 1944: p. X7.
“Forms Follow Man,” Interim, 2, no. 2 (1946): reproduced p. 33.
Annual Report of the Seattle Art Museum: Forty-fifth Year, 1950 (Seattle: Seattle Art museum, 1951), p. 15 [dated 1943].
Gonzales, Boyer. “The Visual Arts: Uniformly High Quality Marks U.S.I.A. Show at Museum,” Seattle Times, January 20, 1957: p. 54.
Rodman, Selden. Conversations with Artists. New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1957. Reproduced as "Form Follows Man", no page no.
Roberts, Colette. Mark Tobey. 2nd. Ed., New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1960; p. 12 (reproduced).
{Mizue, no. 689 (August 1962), reproduced.}
Hoffmann, Edith. "Bissière and Tobey in Amsterdam," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 108, no. 758 (May 1966), pp. 277-279, illus. p. 279, no. 87
Schmeid,Wieland. Mark Tobey. New York: Harry N. Abrams for Meridian Books, 1966; reproduced p, 20.
{Fabbri, Dino. Storia della Pittura, Vol. 28 (1969): reproduced plate 20?}
“Seattle’s Pride,” Apollo 92, new series no. 106 (December 1970): reproduced plate VII, p. 491.
Price, Vincent. The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Country Beautiful Corporation, 1972; pp. 254-255, reproduced p. 255.
Kingsbury, Martha and Sarah Clark. Northwest Traditions. Exh. cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1978; p. 22, reproduced.
{Encyclopedia of Painting and Sculpture (London: Mitchell Beazley, 1980) ?}
Seitz, William C. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press for the National Gallery of Art, 1983; reproduced p. 242 [dated 1941].
Dahl, Arthur L., et al. Mark Tobey: Art and Belief. Oxford:George Ronald, 1984; reproduced plate 34, p. 69.
Stella, Frank. Working Space. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986; p. 123, reproduced fig. 39, p. 122.
Balken, Debra Bricker. Mark Tobey: Threading Light. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 2017; pp. 34, 90, reproduced pl. 11, pp. 36-37 and detail, p. 208.