Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Tobey / 48
[Willard Gallery, New York, until 1949; sold to MMA]
New York. Willard Gallery. "Mark Tobey," November 1–26, 1949, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 16).
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.
Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago. "Mark Tobey," April 18–May 14, 1952.
Washington, D.C. St. Albans School. "50th Anniversary Exhibition: Art and Secondary Education," May 21–June 3, 1959, no catalogue [exhibited in the section "Mark Tobey Retrospective"].
Paris. Musée des Arts Décoratifs. "Mark Tobey Retrospective," October 18–December 1, 1961, no. 68.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Mark Tobey," September 12–November 4, 1962, no. 56.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. "Mark Tobey Retrospective," March 20–April 21, 1968, no. 44.
National Museum of Art, Osaka. "Pacific Northwest Artists and Japan," October 2–November 28, 1962, no. 119.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Mark Tobey, City Paintings," March 18–June 17, 1984, no. 33.
Atlanta. High Museum of Art. "Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 26–April 4, 1993, no. 57.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 4–September 12, 1993, extended to November 7, 1993, no. 57.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. "Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper, Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 11–June 4, 1995, no. 82.
Madrid. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. "Mark Tobey," November 11, 1997–January 12, 1998, unnumbered cat. (p. 209).
Madrid. Fundación Juan March. "Expresionismo Abstracto: Obra Sobre Papel, Colección The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York," May 9–July 2, 2000, no. 72.
Tacoma Art Museum. "Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson," May 3–August 10, 2003, unnumbered cat. (p. 134).
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. "Mark Tobey: Threading Light," May 6–September 17, 2017, unnumbered cat. (pl. 50).
New York. Pace Gallery. "Mark Tobey," October 25, 2018–January 12, 2019, unnumbered cat. (p. 23).
Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 104.
Howard Devree. "An Artist's Growth: Mark Tobey Retrospective at Whitney." New York Times (October 7, 1951), p. 119.
Mark Tobey. "Reminiscence and Reverie." Magazine of Art 44 (October 1951), ill. p. 229.
"World's Imprints on Seattle's Tobey; Exhibition at Whitney." Art Digest 26 (October 15, 1951), p. 11, ill.
"Mystic Painters of the Northwest." Life 35 (September 28, 1953), ill. p. 84 (color, with the artist).
"The Age of Experiment." Time 67 (February 13, 1956), p. 62, ill. (color).
Dorothy C. Miller inNew Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century. Ed. John I. H. Baur. Greenwich, Conn., 1957, ill. p. 194.
Alexander Eliot. Three Hundred Years of American Painting. New York, 1957, pp. 266–67, ill. (color).
Stuart Preston. "Art: Mark Tobey Show Is at Modern." New York Times (September 12, 1962), ill. p. 36.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 163–64, ill.
Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. History of Water Color Painting in America. New York, 1966, p. 134, pl. 119.
Marshall B. Davidson. The American Heritage History of the Artists' America. New York, 1973, ill. p. 337.
Pacific Northwest Artists and Japan. Exh. cat., National Museum of Art, Osaka. Osaka, 1982, pp. 84–85, no. 119, ill. p. 89.
David Anfam. "Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper. New York, Metropolitan Museum." Burlington Magazine 135 (September 1993), p. 657.
Anna Szech inPaul Klee: The Abstract Dimension. Ed. Anna Szech. Exh. cat., Fondation Beyeler. Basel, 2017, p. 36, fig. 16 (color).
Christopher Reed. Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities. New York, 2017, p. 275, fig. 3.35 (ill. in Ref. Tobey 1951).
Erika Doss. Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion. Chicago, 2023, p. 122, figs. 3.20 (overall), 3.21 (with the artist).
Mark Tobey (American, Centerville, Wisconsin 1890–1976 Basel)
1957
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