Photographs and letters relating to Mark Tobey murals
name: label: Creator
content: Straight, Michael Whitney
label: Names
content: Dartington Hall (Totnes, England)
label: Names
content: Morel, Paula
label: Names
content: Tobey, Mark
topic: label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration, British
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The photographs and letters relating to Mark Tobey murals were donated to the Archives of American Art by Michael Straight, son of Dorothy Whitney Straight who was the founder of Dartington Hall. He found the photographs in the Dartington Hall archives.
creator: label: Creator
content: Straight, Michael Whitney
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content: Photographs and letters relating to Mark Tobey murals
abstract: label: Summary
content: The photographs and letters relating to Mark Tobey murals consist of nine photographs (ca. 1933) of murals of dancers by Mark Tobey at the Dartington Hall dance center in Devonshire, England; one photograph each of Mark Tobey and dancer Paula Morel; and two letters (1988) from Mary Bride Nicholson, the archivist at Dartington Hall, and donor Michael Straight discussing the murals.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The donor, Michael Straight, grew up at Dartington Hall, Devonshire, England, an experimental community founded by his mother, Dorothy Whitney Straight and her second husband Leonard K. Elmhirst. The community included a progressive coeducational boarding school and a cluster of art centers. In the early 1930s, Straight's sister, Beatrice, returned from the Cornish School in Seattle, where she had studied drama, with Mark Tobey. He became an artist-in-residence and, around 1933, was commissioned to paint a series of murals in the Dartington dance center. In the following decade, the murals were damaged beyond repair and the walls were painted over.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 13 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1933-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.stramich
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of the collection the papers are arranged as one series.

Series 1: Photographs and Letters Relating to Mark Tobey Murals (13 items; Folder 1)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection received a preliminary level of arrangement by Jean Fitzgerald in 1989. The collection was then processed and a finding aid prepared by Rihoko Ueno in 2021.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Portions of the collection are available on 35mm microfilm reel 4283 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of material described in the container inventory does not refelct the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: The two letters in the collection are photocopies. The original letters are in the AAA collection file.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The photographs and letters relating to Mark Tobey murals consist of nine photographs (ca. 1933) of murals of dancers by Mark Tobey at the Dartington Hall dance center in Devonshire, England; one photograph each of Mark Tobey and dancer Paula Morel; and two letters (1988) from Mary Bride Nicholson, the archivist at Dartington Hall, and donor Michael Straight discussing the murals.