Arthur L. and Joyce Lyon Dahl papers
name: label: Creator
content: Dahl, Arthur L., 1942-
label: Creator
content: Dahl, Joyce Lyon
label: Names
content: Barnett, Arthur
label: Names
content: Guérin, Jacques
label: Names
content: Hallsten, Pehr, d. 1965
label: Names
content: Johnson, Dan Rhodes
label: Names
content: Malraux, André, 1901-1976
label: Names
content: Mathieu, Georges, 1921-
label: Names
content: Seitz, William C. (William Chapin)
label: Names
content: Seligman, Otto D., 1890-1966
label: Names
content: Speyer, Darthea, 1919-2014
label: Names
content: Tobey, Mark
label: Names
content: Willard, Marian, 1904-1985
label: Names
content: Wummer, John
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- France -- Paris
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
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content: Artists and patrons -- France -- Paris
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1977-1986 by Arthur and Joyce Lyon Dahl.
label: Provenance
content: The second movement of Mark Tobey's composition, "Suite for Flute," was used on the sound track of "Mark Tobey," a 20-minute experimental film made in Seattle in 1952 by Robert Gardner. In 1959, Marian Willard Johnson, on the occasion of Tobey's birthday, engaged John Wummer to record this work privately. The record contained within this set of papers is the one she gave to Mark Tobey. Tobey gave the record to Dahl sometime before moving to Switzerland in 1960.
creator: label: Creator
content: Dahl, Arthur L., 1942-
label: Creator
content: Dahl, Joyce Lyon
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art collectors; Pebble Beach and San Francisco, California. The Dahls became close friends with Mark Tobey (1892-1976) through their involvement in the Baha'i World Faith and corresponded regularly with him.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.6 Linear Feet ((microfilmed on 7 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1926-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dahlarth
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1785-1788, 3829, 1819 & 4909 available for use at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters; photographs; writings; sketches; financial records; a scrapbook; a phonograph album; exhibition announcements and clippings mainly relating to Mark Tobey.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3829: Six letters to Dahl from Mark Tobey; a letter from Jermayne MacAgy requesting Tobey's painting "Autobiography" for an exhibit and Dahl's response; a letter from the Whitney Museum of Art regarding a Tobey painting; and a letter from the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahai's of the U.S. regarding a Tobey exhibit. Also included is a phonograph album, 1959, of a Tobey musical composition "Suite for Flute," performed by John Wummer, inscribed on the jacket "To Mark Tobey, composer - Marion - 12/59."
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 1785-1788: Correspondence; writings on Tobey; three sketches by Tobey; financial records relating to the sale of art works; organizational records of the Pacific Northwest Arts Center; exhibition announcements and catalogs; clippings; a scrapbook; and 13 photographs. Among the correspondents are Tobey, Pehr Hallsten, art dealers Otto D. Seligman, Dan Rhodes Johnson, and Marian Willard Johnson, museum curator William C. Seitz, and Tobey's attorney Arthur Barnett.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 1819: Photographs of two retrospective exhibitions of Mark Tobey's paintings at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Louvre, Paris, 1961, and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962. Included are installation shots and photographs of Tobey, Pehr Hallsten, William C. Seitz, Joyce Lyon Dahl, Andre Malraux, Georges Mathieu, Otto Seligman, Darthea Speyer, Arthur Barnett, Marian Willard Johnson, and Jacques Guerin.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 4909(fr. 972-980): Two letters 1971 & 1975, from Arthur Barnett to Arthur Dahl regarding Tobey; a black and white photograph taken by Arthur Dahl of Mark Tobey having tea with friends, including Joyce Dahl, on the occassion of his retrospective at the Louvre, 1961; and a snapshot of Dahl, his wife, Tobey, Pehr, and others taken at the home of George and Lucile Herbert.