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Date1953

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

Object numberSC2017.1

ProvenanceThe artist’s friends, painter Carl Morris (1911-1993) and sculptor Hilda Morris (1911-1991), Portland, Oregon, by 1959; possibly by bequest to their son, David Curt Morris; possibly sold to Ellsworth and Nancy Alvord, Seattle, after 1993

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Seattle Art Museum, Mark Tobey: A Retrospective Exhibition from Northwest Collections, Sept. 11-Nov. 1, 1959 (Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum; Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Art Center; Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum; San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1960). Text by Edward B. Thomas. Cat. no. 165, not reproduced [lent by Carl and Hilda Morris, Portland, Oregon].

Credit LineGift of Ellsworth and Nancy D. Alvord

Dimensions11 1/4 × 35 1/2 in. (28.6 × 90.2 cm)

MediumTransparent and opaque watercolor on Japanese paper mounted on plywood