Mark Tobey papers
name: label: Creator
content: Tobey, Mark
label: Names
content: Willard Gallery
label: Names
content: Ashton, Dore
label: Names
content: Dahl, Arthur L., 1942-
label: Names
content: Elmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight
label: Names
content: Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956
label: Names
content: Hallsten, Pehr, d. 1965
label: Names
content: Hauberg, Anne Gould
label: Names
content: Hauberg, John H. (John Henry), 1916-
label: Names
content: Hillman, Kay
label: Names
content: Holty, Carl, 1900-1973
label: Names
content: Leach, Bernard, 1887-1979
label: Names
content: Ritter, Mark
label: Names
content: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
label: Names
content: Seliger, Charles, 1926-2009
label: Names
content: Willard, Marian, 1904-1985
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- History
label: Topic
content: Bahai Faith
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1984 by the Seattle Art Museum.
creator: label: Creator
content: Tobey, Mark
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Abstract Expressionist. Also worked as fashion illustrator, portrait painter. Born in Wisconsin, December 11, 1892. Died 1976. Worked in Chicago, Seattle, Basel, Switzerland; New York, N.Y., Dartington Hall, Devonshire, England, and Paris. Convert to Baha'i religion.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1920]-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tobemark2
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3200-3210 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material; correspondence; financial records; Baha'i material; music; writings; art works; printed material; and photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical material includes diaries with sporadic entries, undated and 1958-1959; address books; membership cards, and honorary titles. Correspondents include Stephen Andrus, Dore Ashton, Arthur G. Barnett, John and Betty Bowen, Adelyn Breeskin, Cliffa Carson (niece), Thomas A. Chew, Lillian Clark, Paul Cummings, Arthur Dahl, Shoghi B. Effendi, Dorothy Elmhirst, Claire Falkenstein, Lyonel Feininger, Janet Flanner, John Ford,Miriam Gabo, Colin Graham, Pehr Hallsten, Pamela Harkins, Nina Harwood, John and Anne Hauberg, Kay Hillman, Joseph Hirshhorn, David Hofman, Carl Holty, Herbert Hoover, Leroy and Silvia Ioas, Berthe P. and Claire Jacobson, Nina Kandinsky, Helen Kendall, Carolyn Kizer, Katharine Kuh,Rene Lauby, Bernard Leach, Gerald Lieberman, Andre Masson, Marjory Masten, George Mathieu, N. Richard Miller, Joan Miro, Axel Mondell, Alfred Neumeyer, Ben Nicholson, Vincent Price, Mark Ritter, Diego Rivera, Nancy W. Ross, John Russell, Henry Seldis, Charles Seliger, Otto Seligman, Art Smith, James Speyer, Michel Tapie, Miriam Terry, Roland Terry, Juliet Thompson, Kenneth Tyler, Charmion Von Wiegand, Heloise Wardall, Ulfert Wilke, and Marian Willard of the Willard Gallery.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also found are: notes taken while studying French; financial, legal and medical records; material relating to Baha'i, including credential for Tobey for the Baha'i World Congress, 1963, class notes, photographs, prayer books, and printed material; music, including sheet music by Tobey, recital program, and music by Harold Budd, John Sundsten,and Debussey; writings and poetry by Tobey and Dahl; writings on Tobey; a transcript of an interview of Tobey conducted by William Seitz; sketches and sketchbooks by Tobey and by others, including Bernard Leach; printed material on Tobey, including reproductions of work, exhibition catalogs and announcements, magazine articles, and clippings; and printed material on others, including Hallsten, Leach, Seliger, Feininger, Abraham Walkowitz, Alberto Burri, and Jules Pascin.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included are photographs of: Tobey, Tobey with family and friends, exhibition installations, works of art, an album containing photos, sketches and notes, ca. 1920-1950, an album of photos of Tobey's Seattle studio taken after his death by Kenneth Tomlinson, 1976, and miscellaneous photographs.