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Japanese Fantasy

Japanese Fantasy

Date1954
Maker Mark Tobey American, born Centerville, Wisconsin, 1890; died Basel, Switzerland, 1976
Object number56.286
Exhibition HistorySpokane, Washington, Eastern Washington Historical Society, "Mark Tobey Retrospective", 1968 (1968) Mount Vernon, Washington, Skagit Valley College, 1965 (1965) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Center, International Pavilion, 1963 (1963) Seattle, Washington, Seattle World's Fair, Fine Arts Pavilion, "Seattle Art Museum Mark TObey Exhibit", 1962 (1962) Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Art Museum, "Paths into Abstract Art", 1960 (1960) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Mark Tobey: A Retrospective Exhibition From Northwest Collections", September 11 - November 1, 1959. (09/11/1959 - 11/01/1959) 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) 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)Published ReferencesThe Art Quarterly, Spring 1957, p. 104
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions17 7/8 x 11 3/4 in. (45.4 x 29.9 cm) Overall: 25 1/2 × 19 in. (64.8 × 48.3 cm)
MediumTransparent and opaque watercolor on paper
Untitled Calligraphy
Mark Tobey
1953
Object number: 70.90
Serpentine
Mark Tobey
1955
Object number: 58.114
Mark Tobey
1953
Object number: SC2017.1
Gothic
Mark Tobey
1943
Object number: 75.35
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Mark Tobey
1941-1943
Object number: 50.90
Photo: Paul Macapia
Mark Tobey
1941
Object number: 42.28
Written Over the Plains #2
Mark Tobey
1959
Object number: 59.171
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1944
Object number: 59.175
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1947
Object number: 48.46
Ceremonial Bronze Taking the Form of a Bird
Morris Graves
1947
Object number: 48.47
Minnow
Morris Graves
1955
Object number: 83.259
Waning Moon: No. 1
Morris Graves
1943
Object number: 46.215