MARK TOBEY (1890-1976)
"To me an artist is one who....portrays the spirit of man in whatever condition that
spirit may be. He can't expect too much of him when the rest is negligent of spiritual
values such as today....The development of my work has been I feel more subconscious
than conscious. I do not work by intellectual deductions. My work is a kind of
self-contained contemplation." --Mark Tobey
"Mark Tobey holds a unique and important position among the artists of the United States and Europe.
As a young man Tobey was converted to the Baha'i World Faith, which deeply affected his view of the world.
He was later influenced by Oriental thought and aesthetics....In 1958 he received the major prize for painting
at the Biennale of Venice and in 1961, the first American to be so honored, he was accorded a compre- hensive
retrospectives exhibition in the Pavillon de Marsan of the Louvre in Paris."
William C. Seitz, Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Mark Tobey is represented in the permanent collections of most of the major art museums throughout
the world and was honored recently with a retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofia in Madrid, Spain.
