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ID: 500012870 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012870			Record Type: Person

Tobey, Mark (American painter, 1890-1976)

Note: Beginning his career as an illustrator, 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 monastary 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 would use extensively until his death. As an Abstract Expressionist, Tobey's work and career stand out as different because of his strong spiritual beliefs, as well as his varying interests (he was also a classically trained pianist).

Names:
	Tobey, Mark (preferred,V,index,LC O,English-P,NA,U)
	Tobey, Mark (Dutch-P,NA)
	Mark Tobey (V,display)
	Tobey, Mark George (V)
	טובי, מארק (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
	Tobey (LU,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	LGBTQ

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	engraver (printmaker)
	sculptor
	photographer

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Centerville (Trempealeau county, Wisconsin, United States) (inhabited place) Died: Basel (Basel-Stadt, Switzerland) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

teacher of ....	Staprāns, Raimonds
..................	(American painter of Latvian birth, born 1926) [500013078]

teacher of ....	Wright, Clifford 1937-1943
..................	(American painter, 1919-1999, active in Denmark) [500101484]

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Tobey, Mark (I)

Biographies:

(American painter, 1890-1976) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(American painter, 1890-1976) ..... [GRLPA]
(American painter, 1890-1976) ..... [PROV]
(American artist, 1890-1976) ..... [WCP]
(Engraver, 1890-1976) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1890-1976) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1890-1976) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American sculptor, 1890-1976) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American artist, 1890-1976) ..... [AVERY]
(American painter, 1890-1976) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1890-1976) ..... [PROV]
(American painter, 1890-1976) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist, 1890-1976) ..... [MoMA]
(American artist) ..... [PROV]
(American painter, 1890-1976) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

טובי, מארק ........	[IMJ]
....................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Mark Tobey ........	[GRISC, MoMA, PROV, VP]
......................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................	Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
......................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
......................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
......................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Tobey ........	[PROV]
.............	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Tobey, Mark ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
........................	Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules 5889
........................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
........................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 79134980 accessed 9 October 2006
........................	M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
........................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
........................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 77681
........................	Witt Library, Authority files

Tobey, Mark George ........	[VP]
.....................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) accessed 9 October 2006


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 1 April 2003
	..........	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
	..........	Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)

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