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Tobey, Mark
| Last Name: | Tobey |
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| First Name: | Mark |
| Dates: |
*1890 (Date of Birth)
*1976 (Date of Death)
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| Biography/History: | Mark Tobey, born Centerville, Wisconsin 1890, died Basel, Switzerland 1976 – Mark Toby’s artistic interests were spiritual as well as formal. Inspired by the Baha’i faith and Zen Buddhism, he created a unique visual vocabulary for expressing his conceptual framework. From his travels in Asia and the Middle East, Toby became fascinated with calligraphy and Arabic script and created a style of painting he called “White writing.” These paintings, which include elements from the real works, are densely packed compositions in which details, rendered in white, swirl in and through ambiguous spaces |
| Related Objects: |
2979.1 (Drawing, Market Figures, 1939)
3177.1 (Lithograph, Composition, 1961)
3177.10 (Lithograph, Chinese Memories 17/50, 1974)
3177.11 (Etching; Lithograph, Morning Grass, 1975)
3177.2 (Lithograph, Winter, 1961)
3177.3 (Lithograph, Untitled, 1965)
3177.4 (Lithograph, Flight Over Forms, 1966)
3177.5 (Lithograph, Summer Reflections, 1967)
3177.6 (Etching, Pensees Germinales, 1972)
3177.7 (Print, Screen, Folk Dance on Independence Day II, 1972)
3177.8 (Lithograph, Black by Yellow, 1973)
3177.9 (Lithograph, Clarte I, 1973)
3473.2 (Lithograph, untitled)
3473.3 (Lithograph, untitled)
3473.5 (Lithograph, Untitled)
3678.22 (Drawing, "Mother and Child", ca. 1950)
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