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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Space Ritual #18
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Space Ritual #18

Date1957
Maker Mark Tobey American, born Centerville, Wisconsin, 1890; died Basel, Switzerland, 1976
Object number87.20
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
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].
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Mark Tobey
Dimensions23 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)
MediumSumi ink on wove paper mountd on board
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Mark Tobey
1957
Object number: 60.85
Space Ritual #17
Mark Tobey
1957
Object number: 87.18
Space Ritual No. 2
Mark Tobey
1957
Object number: 87.19
Space Ritual #11
Mark Tobey
1957
Object number: 87.21
No. 2, Sumi Studies, (Two Sheets)
Mark Tobey
1957
Object number: 86.102
No. 6, Self-Portrait
Mark Tobey
1953
Object number: 86.103
Broadway Girl
Mark Tobey
1957
Object number: 87.22
No. 3, Impression of a young woman
Mark Tobey
1957
Object number: SC86.104
No. 4, Two Girls Playing
Mark Tobey
1959
Object number: SC86.105
No. 5, Study of an old man
Mark Tobey
ca. 1957
Object number: SC86.106
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Mark Tobey
1953
Object number: SC86.107
No. 8, Untitled
Mark Tobey
ca. 1957
Object number: SC86.108