Algerian Landscape

1931

Mark Tobey

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

Oil on canvas

17 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. (44.5 x 54.9 cm)

Overall h.: 21 1/2 in.

Overall w.: 25 5/8 in.

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

34.140

Provenance: Harry Hartman Book Store, Seattle, Washington, 1931; purchased by Richard Fuller, Seattle, Washington, 1931; gift to Seattle Art Museum, 1934

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Art Institute of Seattle, 17th Annual Exhibition Northwest Artists, 1931.

Seattle, Washington, Harry Hartman's Bookstore Gallery, Drawings and Watercolors by Mark Tobey, Aug. 1931.

Boise, Idaho, Boise Art Association, Northwest Artists, Nov. 1941.

Puyallup, Washington, Western Washington Fair, Contemporary American Painting, 1941.

Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena National, 1946.

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Northwest Artists, 1950 (East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State College, 1950; Albion, Michigan, Albion College, 1950; Bloomfield Hills, Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, 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).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Mark Tobey: A Retrospective Exhibition From Northwest Collections, Sept. 11 - Nov. 1, 1959. Cat. no. 11, ill. (Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, December 1959 - January 1960); Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Jan. - Feb. 1960; Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, Feb. - Mar. 1960; San Francisco, California, M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, Mar. - Apr. 1960). Cat. no. 22, ill.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Tobey's 80: A Retrospective Exhibition From Northwest Collectors, Dec. 3, 1970 - Jan. 31, 1971. Cat. no. 9, ill.

Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Mark Tobey Retrospective Exhibition, Mar. 20 - Apr. 21, 1968. Cat. no. 5, ill.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle World's Fair, Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle Art Museum, Mark Tobey Exhibit, Apr. 21 - Oct. 21, 1962.

Tokyo, Japan, Art in Embassies Program, May 1998 - Feb. 2001.

Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Mark Tobey: Threading Light, Nov. 4, 2017 - Mar. 11, 2018 (Venice, Italy, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, May 6 - Sept. 17, 2017). Text by Debra Bricker Balkan. No cat. no, pp. 63, 74, 191, reproduced p. 65, pl. 28.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Modernism [permanent collection display], Aug. 2018 - Jan. 2020.

Published ReferencesKingsbury, Martha. Art of the Pacific Northwest from the 1930's to the Present. Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974. P. 50.

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