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Three Birds

Date1935

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

Object number36.42

Photo CreditPhoto: Paul Macapia

Exhibition HistoryBremen, Germany, Kunsthalle Bremen, "Sounds of the Inner Eye: Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, John Cage" January 15, 2002 - October 6, 2002 (1/15/2002 - 10/6/2002) Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, "Northwest Mythology: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson", May3, 2003 - August 10, 2003 Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, "The Expression Landscape: North American Modernist Painting", 1920-1947, Ruth Stevens Appelhof, September 11 - November 4, 1987. (09/11/1987 - 11/04/1987) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Bird Sanctuary", August 17, 1995 - February 11, 1996. (08/17/1995 - 02/11/1996) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Northwest Traditions", June 29-December 10, 1978. Circuit: Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 3/19 - 4/29/79. (06/29/1978 - 04/29/1979) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Birds and Beasts", July 14, 1994 - April 9, 1995. (07/14/1994 - 04/09/1995) 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) Miami, Florida, The Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, "Mark Tobey 1930-1967: A Selection Of Works 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, 1972. (4/1972 - 4/1972) 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) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, "Painters of the Northwest School", 1969 (1969) Spokane, Washington, Eastern Washington State Historical Society, "Mark Tobey Retrospective", 1968 (1968) Renton, Washington, Renton Creative Arts Festival, Invitational Exhibition, 1967(1967) 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) Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Art Gallery, "The Bird In Art", 1964 (1964) New York, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Mark Tobey", September 12-November 4, 1962. Circuit: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 12/11/62-1/12/63, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2/22-3//63. (09/12/1962 - 03/24/1963) Paris, France, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, November 27, 1960 - January 16, 1961(11/27/1960 - 01/16/1961) San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Retrospective Exhibition 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) 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)Published ReferencesBalken, Debra Bricker. Mark Tobey: Threading Light. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with the Addison Gallery of American Art, 2017; pp. 74, 80, 96, reproduced p. 75, pl. 31.

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Dimensions10 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (27.3 x 49.5 cm) Overall h.: 19 1/4 in. Overall w.: 23 in.

MediumOpaque watercolor on paper