Moving Moments
Date1970
Maker
Mark Tobey
American, born Centerville, Wisconsin, 1890; died Basel, Switzerland, 1976
Object number2009.52.78
ProvenanceThe artist to [Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland] by December 1970; to [Willard Gallery, New York], by October 1971; purchased by Marshall and Helen Hatch, Seattle, January 7, 1972
Photo CreditPhoto: Susan Cole
Exhibition HistoryBasel, Switzerland, Galerie Beyeler, Tobey: Exhibition on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, Dec.1970-Feb.1971. Cat. no. 87, reproduced.
New York, Willard Gallery, Mark Tobey: Paintings, 1969-1970, Oct. 26-Nov. 27, 1971. {No cat. or checklist?}
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Tribute to Mark Tobey, June 7-Sept.8, 1974 (traveled in reduced form to Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle Center, Sept. 27-Nov.10, 1984). Introduction by Joshua Taylor. Cat. no. 66, reproduced.
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle Center, Mark Tobey Memorial Exhibition, July 22-Sept. 12, 1976 {No checklist?}.
Boston, Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Northwest Visionaries: Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, Leo Kenney, July 7-September 6, 1981. No cat. no., not reproduced.
Osaka, Japan, The National Museum of Art, Pacific Northwest Artists and Japan, Oct. 2-Nov. 28, 1982. Cat. no. 140, reproduced [erroneously catalogued as oil on paper].
Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Art in America: Washington Collection, Spiritualism in Northwest Art, July 22-Aug. 29, 1982 {no catalogue or checklist?}.
Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Mark Tobey, Nov. 11, 197 - Jan. 12, 1998.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle, May 5-Sept. 9, 2007. No checklist.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical, June 19 - Sept. 7, 2014. Text by Patricia Junker. No cat. no., reproduced p. 5, pl. 2.
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 Balken. No. cat. no, reproduced pp. 155, 199.Credit LineGift of the Marshall and Helen Hatch Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions62 x 38 in. (157.5 x 96.5 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
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