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Written Over the Plains #2

Written Over the Plains #2

1959

Mark Tobey

born Centerville, Wisconsin, 1890; died Basel, Switzerland, 1976

Transparent and opaque watercolor on paper
12 7/16 x 9 3/4 in. (31.6 x 24.8 cm)
Gift of Mark Tobey and the Otto Seligman Gallery
59.171
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, "What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century", October 15, 1999 - January 23, 2000

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)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle World's Fair, Fine Arts Pavilion, "Seattle Art Museum Mark Tobey Exhibit", 1962 (1962)

University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, "Northwest Art," 1963 (1963)

Los Angeles, California, Municipal Art Commission, arranged exhibit at Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany, "Pacific Heritage", 1965 (1965)

Kobe, Japan, Kobe Municipal Art Museum, "35 Seattle Artists", (through the WAAM), 1966-1967. Circuit: Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Washington, Alaska Methodist University, Anchorage, Alaska, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, College of Great Falls, Montana, Lower Columbia College, Longview, Washington, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, Western Washington State College, Bellingham, Washington (1966 - 1967)

Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Spokane, Washington, "Mark Tobey Retrospective", 1968 (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)

Printed as a colored poster for the September - November 1974 Seattle Art Museum Tobey exhibition by Farwest/Acme, Inc., Printers, Seattle

Miami-Dade Community College, Florida, "Mark Tobey," December 1, 1975- January 29, 1976 (12/01/1975-01/29/1976)

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)

Miami, Florida, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, "Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions, Small Scale and the Development of American Painterly Abstraction, 1940-1965", 10/26/89-12/3/89 Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 1/6/90-3/5/90 Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 3/25/90-6/13/90 (10/26/1989 - 06/13/1990)

Halifax, Canada, Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, "Painters of the Northwest School", 1969 (1969)
Published ReferencesSeattle Art Museum, Engagement Book, 1962

Frankenstein, A., "Tobey", Artforum, vol. 1: no. 1, ill. p. 26, June 1962

Kittredge Art Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, "Northwest Art", 1963, cat. # 4, ill. cover

Seattle Art Museum, "Tobey's 80: A Retrospective Exhibition from Northwest Collectors", cat., Introduction by Betty Bowen, 1970, cat. # 74, ill.

Color Poster: Poster for Seattle circuit of "Tribute to Mark Tobey", Farwest/Acme Inc., Printers, Seattle, 1974

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. # 21, pp. 8, 11, ill. p. 27

Kingsbury, Martha and Sarah Clark. "Northwest Traditions." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1978, p. 56

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, "Abstract Expressionism" Other Dimensions", Jeffrey Wechsler, 1988

Clarke, David J., "The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture", Garland Publishing, New York & London: 1988, p. 20, fig. #157, ill. n.p. (reprint PhD dissertation, Courtauld Institute)

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers-State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, "Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions", 1989

Clarke, David. "The All-Over Image: Meaning in Abstract Art," in Journal of American Studies, Vol 27, No. 3, Dec. 1993, p. 355-375, fig. 2, p. 365

Clarke, David. “Teng Baiye and Mark Tobey: Interactions between Chinese and American Art in Shanghai and Seattle,” in The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Fall 2002), pp. 171-179, illus. p. 175

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