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Mark Tobey Biography
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1890 |
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Born in Centerville, Wisconsin, USA on December 11th
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1906 |
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His family moves to Hammond near Chicago; visits courses at the Art Institute, Chicago
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1906 - 1908 |
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Studied under Frank Zimmerman and Professor Reynolds at the Art Institute of Chicago
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1909 |
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Works as fashion-designer in Chicago
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1911 |
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Moves to New York, still working as fashion-designer;
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1913 - 1917 |
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Lives alternately in New York and in Chicago; autodidactic artistic studies; has success as a portraitist
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1918 |
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Converts to the 'Bahá’i-World-Faith'; meets Marcel Duchamp
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1922 - 1925 |
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Studied calligraphy and composition under Teng Kwei, University of Washington, Seattle
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1926 |
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Travels to Akka and Haifa; studies Persian and Arabian literature
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1927 |
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Lives alternately in Seattle, Chicago and New York
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1934 |
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Travels to China and Japan; spends a time in a cloister of the Zen-Buddhism and studies Zen-painting and calligraphy
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1935 |
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Trips to Seattle and New York; back in South-England he creates the first 'white writing'
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1931 - 1938 |
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Lives in England
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1940 |
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Studies music (flute, piano, composition); friendship with Lyonel Feininger
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1942 |
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His painting 'Broadway' is honoured and purchased by the Metropolitan Museum, New York
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1954 |
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Travels to Sweden and New York
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1954 - 1955 |
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Travels to Paris, England, Basel, Bern
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1958 |
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Travels to England, Italy and Switzerland
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1966 |
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Travels to Haifa and Madrid
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1970 - 1976 |
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Lived and worked in Basel, Switzerland
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1976 |
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Died in Basel, Switzerland on April, 24th
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Katherine Baker Memorial Award, Seattle Art Museum, 1940
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Artists for Victory Prize, 1942
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Guggenheim International Award, 1956
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Honorary Member, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1956
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Fine Arts Medal, American Institute of Architects, 1957
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First Prize for Painting, Biennale, Venice, 1958
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First Prize for Painting, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 1961
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Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, 1968
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Synchronies: Undercurrrents in Postwar European and American Abstraction, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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2008
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Auktion 27, Lehr, Auktionshaus und Galerie, Berlin
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2007
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Contemporary, Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Le Corps et son double, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
The Passionate Gesture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Jan Bouman Collection, Groninger Museum, Groningen
Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Pathways and Parallels:Roads to Abstract Expressionism, Hollis Taggart Galeries, New York, NY
American Modernists, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
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2006
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La Tentation de l'Orient, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Kunstler der Galerie, Galerie Biedermann, Munich
Wilfrid Moser/Mark Tobey, Galerie Carzaniga GmbH, Basel
Night Sounds: Nocturnal Visions of Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Inner Worlds Outside, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Collection 1, NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan
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2005
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Light Space, Hachmeister Galerie, Munster, Germany
Peintures et Sculptures, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
Little Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
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2004
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Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany -solo
An American Odyssey, 1950-1980 - Debating Modernism, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Centro de Arte de Salamanca; Kiosco Alfonso, La Coruna, Spain
Onbegrensd – Unbegrenzt - Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen, Belgium
Chine - Occident ou l'aventure du signe. Michaux, Tobey, Degottex, Zao Wou-Ki, Shan Sa - Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
The Edge of Tomorrow - Tobey, Price and Graves from the 1940’s, Museum of Art, University of Oregon; San José Museum of Art
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2003
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Unaussprechlich schön - Das mystische Paradies in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts - Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany
Two Friends - Lyonel Feininger, Mark Tobey, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York
Northwest Mythologies - The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson, Tacoma Art Museum
La collection Jean Planque, Salle St. Jean, Hotel de Ville, Paris, France
Separated Colours of Hachmeister, Hachmeister Galerie, Munster, Germany
Acquisitions Nouvelles, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract works on paper, autour de Mark Tobey, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
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2002 - 2003
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Mark Tobey - Smashing Forms and Mark Tobey and Friends, Seattle Art
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2002
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Tobey – Price – Graves, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Oregon, USA
Klänge des Inneren Auges. Mark Tobey – Morris Graves – John Cage, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany; Museum Tacoma, Tacoma/Washington
Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Mark Tobey - Bilder von 1940 bis 1975, BAUKUNST GALERIE, Cologne, Germany -solo
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2001 - 2002
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Da Kandinsky a Pollock: La vertigine della non-forma, Museo Cantonale d'Arte Lugano, Switzerland
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2001
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Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Galerie Carzaniga + Uecker, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Hachmeister Galerie, Münster, Germany (solo)
Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany (solo)
The spirituality of the void, Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
Asian Influences I, Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle, Washington
Hue, Schmidt Bingham Galleries, NY
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2000
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Zen und die westliche Kunst, Museum Bochum, Germany
Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle, USA (solo)
Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany (solo)
Native American INfluences on 1930s & 1940s Modernists, David FIndlay Jr. FIne Art, New York, NY
Cross-Currents in Modern Art, Achim Moeller Fine Art, NY
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1999
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Galerie Carzaniga + Uecker, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Linden-Museum, Stuttgart (solo)
Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle, USA (solo)
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1998 - 1999
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Closeness of Distance, Khmer Skulpturen und Mark Tobey Bilder, Emil Mirzakhanian, Milan, Italy and Hachmeister Galerie, Münster, Germany
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1998
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Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle, USA (solo)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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1996
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Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
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1992 - 1993
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Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany
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1991 - 1992
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Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxemberg
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1991
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Valley Museum of NOrthwest Art, La Conner, Washington
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1990
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Galerie Jeanne Bucher, FIAC, Paris, France
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1977
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"Mark Tobey Retrospective", Ruth S. Shaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1974
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Retrospective, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
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1968
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Retrospective, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
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1967
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Willard Gallery, New York, NY
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1966
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (solo)
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1962
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1961
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Retrospective, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, subsidiary of the Louvre, Paris, France
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1952
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film “Tobey Mark: Artist” debuted in the Venice Film Festival and Edinburgh Film Festival
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1951
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(first retrospective), California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (group)
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1945
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Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (solo)
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| Literature |
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2004
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Heiner Hachmeister (ed.), Mark Tobey Light Space, Muenster 2004
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1991
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Heiner Hachmeister (ed.), Mark Tobey Werke / Oeuvres 1945-1975, Muenster 1991
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