Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Tobey / 36
the artist, Seattle (until 1942; sold to MMA)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art," December 7, 1942–February 22, 1943, unnumbered cat. (p. 19; awarded a Sixth Prize).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Artists for Victory: Prize Winners," March 8–May 10, 1943, no catalogue.
Boston. Institute of Modern Art. "Artists for Victory: Prize Winners," May 22–June 19, 1943, no catalogue.
London. Tate Gallery. "American Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day," June 14–August 5, 1946, no. 211.
Venice. Biennale. "XXIV Biennale di Venezia," May 29–September 30, 1948, U.S. Pavilion no. 71.
San Francisco. California Palace of the Legion of Honor. "Mark Tobey Retrospective," March 31–May 6, 1951.
Seattle. Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington. "Mark Tobey Retrospective," May 20–June 27, 1951.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. "Mark Tobey Retrospective," August 16–September 9, 1951.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Mark Tobey Retrospective," October 4–November 4, 1951.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Mark Tobey Retrospective," January 21–March 20, 1955, no catalogue.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. "Contemporary Calligraphers—John Marin, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves," April 12–May 13, 1956.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Art in Asia and the West," October 28–December 1, 1957.
Venice. Biennale. "Lipton, Rothko, Smith, Tobey: Stati Uniti d'America: XXIX Biennale Venezia 1958," June 14–October 31, 1958.
Washington, D. C. Saint Alban's School. "Mark Tobey," May 20–June 3, 1959, no. 57.
Paris. Musée des Arts Décoratifs. "Mark Tobey Retrospective," October 18–December 1, 1961, no. 14.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "Mark Tobey Retrospective," March–April 1962.
Washington, D. C. Phillips Collection. "Mark Tobey," May 6–June 6, 1962, extended to July 6, 1962, no. 100.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Mark Tobey," September 12–November 4, 1962, no. 7.
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "The New Tradition: Modern Americans Before 1940," April 27–June 2, 1963.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. "Mark Tobey," March 19–May 8, 1966, no. 4.
Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover. "Mark Tobey," May 19–June 26, 1966, no. 4.
Kunsthalle Bern. "Mark Tobey," July 9–September 4, 1966, no. 4.
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. "Mark Tobey," September 16–October 23, 1966, no. 4.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. "Mark Tobey Retrospective," March 20–April 21, 1968, no. 13.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," October 22–December 8, 1968.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham Museum of Art. "American Watercolors, 1850–1972," January 16–February 13, 1972, unnumbered cat.
Mobile, Ala. Mobile Art Gallery. "American Watercolors, 1850–1972," February 22–March 31, 1972, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Art: Additions to the Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition," April 14–May 15, 1972, no catalogue.
Allentown, Penn. Allentown Art Museum. "The City in American Painting," January 20–March 4, 1973, unnumbered cat. (p. 33).
San Juan. El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. "Arte del Siglo Veinte: EE.UU. del Museo Metropolitano de Arte," April 19–May 31, 1974, no. 17.
Washington, D. C. National Collection of Fine Arts. "Tribute to Mark Tobey," June 7–September 8, 1974, no. 1.
Seattle Art Museum. "Tribute to Mark Tobey," September 27–November 1974, no. 1.
City Art Museum of Saint Louis. "Tribute to Mark Tobey," December 7, 1974–January 12, 1975, no. 1.
Southampton, N. Y. Parrish Art Museum. "Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 25–December 31, 1977, no. 18.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "La Peinture Américaine au 20e Siècle de la Collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 28–August 23, 1978, no. 17.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "Peinture américaine, 1920–1940 (Amerikaanse schilderkunst, 1920–1940)," November 10–December 30, 1979, no. 93.
Albany. New York State Senate. "Twelve Americans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 5–June 20, 1980, unnumbered cat. (p. 25).
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Mark Tobey, City Paintings," March 18–June 17, 1984, no. 7.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection One: Twentieth-Century Art," February 1–April 30, 1985, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Artists for Victory," October 1, 1996–January 12, 1997, extended to January 22, 1997, no catalogue.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. "Mark Tobey: Threading Light," May 6–September 17, 2017, unnumbered cat. (pl. 34).
A. Hyatt Mayor. Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. A Picture Book of the Prize Winners. New York, 1942, unpaginated, ill.
"Artists for Victory Score Victory in Metropolitan Exhibition." Art Digest 17 (December 15, 1942), p. 6.
"Record Art Show Has $52,000 Prizes." New York Times (December 8, 1942), p. 30.
Alfred M. Frankfurter. "The Artists for Victory Exhibition: The Paintings." Art News 41 (January 1–14, 1943), p. 12, ill. p. 8.
Mark Tobey. Exh. cat., Portland Art Museum. Portland, 1945, unpaginated.
"The Americans at Venice." Art News 47 (September 1948), p. 25, ill.
Howard Devree. "An Artist's Growth: Mark Tobey Retrospective at Whitney." New York Times (October 7, 1951), p. 119.
Dorothy C. Miller inNew Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century. Ed. John I. H. Baur. Greenwich, Conn., 1957, ill. p. 193, dates it 1936.
Howard Devree. "Award at Venice: Top Prize Caps Distinguished Career of Mark Tobey—Whitney Exhibition." New York Times (June 22, 1958), p. X15, ill.
"Tobey's Works in Paris: 300 Paintings of American Displayed at Louvre." New York Times (October 19, 1961), p. 31.
William C. Seitz. Mark Tobey. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1962, pp. 16, 27, 51, 85 n. 47, 92, 107, no. 7, ill. p. 17 (color), tentatively dates it 1935; states that the artist is "positive" that this work was painted in fall 1935, noting that many early works were dated "long after they were painted".
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 162–63, ill.
Edmund Burke Feldman. Varieties of Visual Experience: Art as Image and Idea. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. (1st ed., 1967). New York, 1972, p. 68, ill. p. 69, dates it 1936.
John Russell. "Painter Tobey, at 83, Still Has a Way with a Line." Smithsonian 5 (June 1974), p. 62, ill. p. 58 (color).
John Russell. "Art: Welcome Tribute to Mark Tobey." New York Times (June 8, 1974), p. 27.
John Russell. "Art: Seeking the Look of the City." New York Times (August 10, 1974), p. 62.
John Russell. The Meanings of Modern Art. Vol. 10, America Redefined. New York, 1975, p. 11, fig. 18.
John Russell. "Mark Tobey, Abstract Artist, 85, Dies." New York Times (April 25, 1976), p. 53.
Helen A. Harrison. Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, N. Y., 1977, p. 24, no. 18, ill.
Helen A. Harrison inLa Peinture Américaine au 20e Siècle de la Collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Brussels, 1978, unpaginated, no. 17, ill., reprints Ref. Harrison 1977.
Fred Hoffman. "Mark Tobey's Paintings of New York." Artforum 17 (April 1979), pp. 25, 27–28, 29 nn. 2, 33, ill. p. 24.
Henry Geldzahler. Twelve Americans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., New York State Senate, Albany. New York, 1980, pp. 24–25, ill.
John Russell. The Meanings of Modern Art. New York, 1981, p. 296.
Lowery S. Sims inProfil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York: de Ramsès à Picasso. Exh. cat., Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux. Bordeaux, 1981, p. 166.
Min-Chih Yao. The Influence of Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy on Mark Tobey (1890–1976). [San Francisco], 1983, pp. 15–16, pl. 5.
Lucretia H. Giese. "Mark Tobey's 1939 Murals for the John A. Baillargeons: A Transition." Archives of American Art Journal 23, no. 2 (1983), pp. 10, 12 n. 18, fig. 13.
Eliza E. Rathbone. Mark Tobey: City Paintings. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1984, pp. 26–38, 41, 56, 66, 71 n. 1, p. 76, no. 7, ill. frontispiece (color) and p. 29, dates it 1935.
John Russell. "Street Life by Mark Tobey—And a Decade of Drawings." New York Times (April 1, 1984), p. H31.
William C. Seitz. "Tobey's World View." Mark Tobey: Art and Belief. Oxford, 1984, p. 18, colorpl. 6, dates it 1936.
Piri Halasz. "Manhattan Museums: The 1940s vs. the 1980s; Part Two: The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Arts Magazine 59 (March 1985), p. 91, dates it about 1936.
Wanda M. Corn. "The Artist's New York, 1900–1930." Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870–1930. Ed. Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske. New York, 1994, p. 307, fig. 11.2.
Helen Westgeest. Zen in the Fifties: Interaction in Art Between East and West. Exh. cat., Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen. Zwolle, 1996, fig. 26, dates it 1936.
Bert Winther-Tamaki. "Mark Tobey, White Writing for a Janus-faced America." Word & Image 13 (January/March 1997), pp. 80–81, fig. 6.
Sheryl Conkelton and Laura Landau. Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson. Exh. cat., Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma, 2003, p. 19, ill. (color).
Debra Bricker Balken inAbstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow, Lisa Mintz Messinger, and Nan Rosenthal. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, p. 58, fig. 17 (color).
Christopher Reed. "Modernizing the Mikado: Japan, Japanism and the Limitations of the Avant-garde." Visual Culture in Britain 14 (March 2013), p. 80, fig. 6 (color).
Branden W. Joseph. Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture. New York, 2016, p. 36, fig. 1.1.
Debra Bricker Balken. Mark Tobey: Threading Light. Exh. cat., Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Andover, Mass., 2017, pp. 78, 191, ill. (color), colorpl. 34.
Christopher Reed. Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities. New York, 2017, pp. 237, 241, 369 n. 107, fig. 3.19.
Robert C. Morgan inMark Tobey. Exh. cat., Pace Gallery. New York, 2018, p. 10, fig. 6 (color).
Ding Ning. "Artistic Tropes: Some Cases of Mutual Chinese-American Influence." Complementary Modernisms in China and the United States: Art as Life/Art as Idea. Ed. Zhang Jian and Bruce Robertson. [e-book], 2020, p. 406, fig. 2 (color).
Erika Doss. Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion. Chicago, 2023, pp. 90, 92, 119–20, 238 n. 95.
Mark Tobey (American, Centerville, Wisconsin 1890–1976 Basel)
1957
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