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Space Ritual #18

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Space Ritual #18

1957

Mark Tobey

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

Sumi ink on wove paper mountd on board
23 5/16 × 34 3/4 in. (59.2 × 88.3 cm)
Frame: 30 1/4 × 41 7/8 × 2 in. (76.8 × 106.4 × 5.1 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Mark Tobey
87.20
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Seattle Art Museum, Light, Shadow, and Gesture: Paintings by Northwest Artists, August 14, 1997-August 2, 1998.

Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970, Aug. 27-Dec. 18, 2016 (Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, Feb. 12-May 27, 2017). No cat no., p.287, reproduced fig. 193.
Published ReferencesJohns, Barbara, "Paul Horiuchi East and West", Universtiy of Washington Press, 2008, pp.42

Shigemi, Inaga, "Questioning Oriental Aesthetics and Thinking: Conflicting Visions of "Asia" under the Colonial Empires", International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2010, pg, 325

Balken, Debra Bricker. Mark Tobey: Threading Light. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with the Addison Gallery of American Art, 2017; pp. 1114, 28, reproduced pl. 69.

Sivanesan, Haema. In the Present Moment: Buddhim, Contemporary Art, and Social Practice. Exh. Cat. Victoria: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2022; p. 16, reproduced fig. 11 [not in exhibition].

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