Moving Forms

Date1930

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

Object number36.41

Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann

Exhibition HistoryTacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, "Northwest Mythology: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson", May3, 2003 - August 10, 2003 Paris, France, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, (Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan), "Mark Tobey", October 18 - December 1, 1961. Circuit: The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1/31 - 3/4/62; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 1962. (10/18/1961 - 1962) Paris, France, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, November 27, 1960 - January 16, 1961 (11/27/1960 - 01/16/1961) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Mark Tobey: A Retrospective 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 Center, CA, 2/60 - 3/60; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 3/60 - 4/60. (09/11/1959 - 04/30/1960) San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Retrospective Of Paintings By Mark Tobey", March 31 - May 6, 1951. Circuit: Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 5/20 - 6/27/51, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, 8/16 - 9/9/51, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10/4 - 11/4/51. (03/31/1951 - 11/04/1951) Tacoma, Washington, College of Puget Sound, "Mark Tobey Drawings and Paintings", 1942 (1942) Spokane, Washington, Eastern Washington State Historical Society, “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) Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, ROOTS OF ABSTRACT ART IN AMERICA: 1910-1930, December 1, 1964 - January 9, 1965. (12/01/1964 - 01/09/1965) Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, "The Expression Landscape: North American Modern Painting", 1920-1947, Ruth Stevens Appelhof, September 11 - November 4, 1987 (09/11/1987 - 08/29/1988) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Northwest Traditions", June 29 - December 10, 1978. Circuit: Des Moines Art Center, IA, 3/19 - 4/29/79 (06/29/1978 - 04/29/1979) Miami, Florida, the Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, "Mark Tobey 1930-1967: A Selection of Work from the Seattle Art Museum", December 1, 1975 - January 29, 1976 (12/01/1975 - 01/29/1976) Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, "Art of the Thirties: The Pacific Northwest", April 1 - 30, 1972. Circuit: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 5/24 - 6/25/72. (04/01/1972 - 06/25/1972)Published ReferencesGeise, Lucretia H., "Mark Tobey's 1939 Murals for the John A. Baillargeons: A Transition", Archives Of American Art Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1983), pp. 8 and 11 note 9, ill. p. 8 Kingsbury, Martha and Sarah Clark. "Northwest Traditions." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1978, p. 87. 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. # 1, pp. 6, 9, ill. p. 13 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, "Tobey's 80: A Retropsective Exhibition From Northwest Collectors", 1970, cat. # 8, text, ill. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, "Mark Tobey: A Retrospective From Northwest Collections", 1959, cat. #21 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Mark Tobey: Retrospective Exhibition", 1951, cat. # 15

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Dimensions10 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (27.3 x 49.5 cm) Overall h.: 20 in. Overall w.: 28 1/4 in.

MediumGouache on paper