Artist	Tobey, Mark
Title	Print
Description	A serigraphic print using browns, reds and oranges depicting a circular shape.
Biographical Notes	Mark Tobey was born in Centerville, WI in 1890. Beginning his career as an illustrator, Mark Tobey was a deeply religious man, converting to the universalist Baha'i faith in 1918, which would in some way influence all of his works. After extensive traveling, including a period of time at a Zen monastery in Japan, Tobey taught art and philosophy at Dartington Hall in England until 1937. He then developed his "white writing" technique, painting white cursive writing on dark canvas, a technique which he (and many other Northwest artists) would use extensively until his death. He was one of the four painters LIFE magazine described as "Northwest Mystics". The others were Guy Anderson, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan. He died in 1976 in Basel, Switzerland.
Date	1961
Decade	1960-1969
Subjects (LCSH)	Arts, American -- Northwest, Pacific -- 20th century. Tobey, Mark Northwest School of artists. Lithography. Forms (Shapes). Abstract expressionism.
Medium/Technique	Color lithograph
Image Measurements	21 x 29 3/4 inches
Object Type	Prints
Type	Still Image
Identifier	art_T552Pr
Digital Format	image/jp2
Digitization Specifications	67,389,616 bytes (working master file). Image capture by IO Color using a 25 mp camera (Sony A900 DSLR). Resized using Adobe Photoshop CS to 4000 pixels along the long dimension.
Contributing Institution	The Seattle Public Library
Collection	The Seattle Public Library Northwest Art Collection
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