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Abstract Expressionism |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| Germany | 42 |
| USA | 38 |
| Switzerland | 15 |
| France | 8 |
| Spain | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Galerie Biedermann, Germany |
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Galerie Jeanne Bucher, France |
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Hachmeister Galerie, Germany |
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The Art Institute of Chicago, USA |
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Biography: 
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Photo: Karl-Heinz Bast, Bonn
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11.12.1890 Born in Centerville, WI (US)
From 1906 to 1908 he attended Saturday classes at The Art Institute of Chicago. In 1911 Tobey moved to New York, where he worked as a fashion illustrator for McCall´s magazine. His first one-man show was held at M. Knoedler & Co., New York, in 1917.
In 1918 Tobey converted to the Baha?i World Faith, which led him to explore the representation of the spiritual in art. Four years later he moved to Seattle and began teaching at the Cornish School of Allied Arts. Also that year he began to explore Chinese calligraphy. The artist went to Paris in 1925, beginning his lifelong travels. While in the Middle East in 1926, he became interested in Persian and Arabic script. Upon returning to Seattle in 1928, Tobey cofounded the Free and Creative Art School. From 1931 to 1938 he was resident artist at Dartington Hall, a progressive school in Devonshire, England. His tenure there was punctuated with frequent absences for travel to Mexico, the United States, and the Orient. Tobey spent a month in a Zen monastery outside Kyoto in 1934; the following year he began his ?white writing? paintings, which were shown for the first time at the Willard Gallery, New York, in 1944. Tobey exhibited regularly at the Willard Gallery thereafter.
Tobey returned in 1938 to Seattle where, in addition to painting and teaching, he studied the piano and music theory. During this period he executed several paintings inspired by Seattle´s open-air market. The Arts Club of Chicago held solo shows of Tobey´s work in 1940 and 1946. He was given a solo exhibition in 1945 at the Portland Museum of Art, Oregon. In 1951, at the invitation of Josef Albers, Tobey spent three months as guest critic of graduate art-students´ work at Yale University. Also that year the artist´s first retrospective was held at the palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. A solo show of Tobey´s work took place in 1955 at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher in Paris. The next year he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and he received a Guggenheim International Award. In 1957 he began his Sumi ink paintings. Tobey was awarded the City of Venice painting prize at the Venice Biennale the following year. The artist settled in Basel in 1960, and in 1961 he became the first American painter to be honored with a solo exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Solo presentations of Tobey´s work were held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1962, and at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1966. A major retrospective of the artist´s work took place at the National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., in 1974.
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24.4.1976 Died in Basel (CH)
| | Public exhibitions 125
Solo shows 19
2005
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| Light Space - Hachmeister Galerie, Münster |
2004
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| Mark Tobey - Baukunst Galerie, Cologne |
2003
2001
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| Mark Tobey - Bilder von 1940 bis 1975 - Baukunst Galerie, Cologne |
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| Mark Tobey – Inneres Betrachten - Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
2000
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| Mark Tobey - Galerie Biedermann, Munich |
1997
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| Mark Tobey - A retrospective exhibition - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid |
1995
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| Mark Tobey - ars videndi Kunsthandel, Pfaffenhofen |
1994
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| Mark Tobey. Paintings (1920-1960) - Yoshii Gallery, New York City, NY |
1989
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| Mark Tobey - Between worlds - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
1984
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| Mark Tobey: City Paintings - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1976
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| Mark Tobey: 1890-1976 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1974
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| Mark Tobey Graphics, 1961-1971 - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1973
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| Graphics by Mark Tobey - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY |
1970
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| Mark Tobey - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1963
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| Mark Tobey Retrospective - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1962
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| Mark Tobey - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Mark Tobey - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 106
2009
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| Von Degas bis Picasso Die Sammlung Jean Planque - Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Münster |
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| Capolavori della modernitŕ. La collezione del Kunstmuseum Winterthur - MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto |
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| American Printmaking since 196 - Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik |
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| Bilderträume. Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| La intuición y la estructura De Torres García a Vieira da Silva, 1929-1949 - IVAM - Institut Valenciŕ d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| Notation. Form und Kalkül in den Künsten - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| L'Artista viaggiatore da Gauguin a Klee, da Matisse a Ontani - Museo d'Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Ravenna |
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| Drawings and Watercolors - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Synchronies: Undercurrents in Postwar European and American Abstraction - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2008
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| Notation. Kalkül und Form in den Künsten - , Berlin |
2007
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| Contemporary, Cool and Collected - Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC |
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| Le Corps et son double - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| The Passionate Gesture - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Jan Bouman Collection - Groninger Museum, Groningen |
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| Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia - - Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed) |
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| Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
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| Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism - Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, NY |
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| American Modernists - University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY |
2006
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| La tentation de l´Orient - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Plane/Figure - Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Künstler der Galerie - Galerie Biedermann, Munich |
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| Wilfrid Moser / Mark Tobey - Galerie Carzaniga GmbH, Basel |
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| Night Sounds: Nocturnal Visions of Mark Tobey and Morris Graves - Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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| Inner Worlds Outside - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| Collection 1 - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka |
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| Osterausstellung - ars videndi Kunsthandel, Pfaffenhofen |
2005
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| Peintures et Sculptures - Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne |
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| Group Show - Galleria Torbandena, Trieste |
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| Internationale Zeichner - Galerie Biedermann, Munich |
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| Accrochage de groupe - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| 50 Jahre - Years documenta 1955 – 2005 - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| Schrift, Zeichen, Geste. Carlfriedrich Claus im Kontext von Klee bis Pollock - Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz |
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| Little Treasures from the Permanent Collection - Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL |
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| Zeichnungen und Aquarelle - Galerie Biedermann, Munich |
2004
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| Artists of the Northwest - Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID |
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| Action Painting. Arte americana 1940 - 1970: dal disegno all'opera - Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena |
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| Lyonel Feininger - Mark Tobey - Moeller Fine Art Ltd, New York City, NY |
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| Klassiker und Neuentdeckungen des Informel - Galerie Bernd Dürr GmbH, Munich |
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| AVANGUARDIE STORICHE E ASTRAZIONE - Importanti opere su carta del XX secolo - Galleria Torbandena, Trieste |
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| Africa - Beauty and Disaster - Galerie Beyeler, Basel |
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| European and American Masters of the 20th Century - Moeller Fine Art Ltd, New York City, NY |
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| Picasso to Thiebaud - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| Künstler der Galerie - Galerie Biedermann, Munich |
2003
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| The Spirit of White - Galerie Beyeler, Basel |
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| Grafik - Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich |
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| El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Espańolas - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia |
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| Acquisitions Nouvelles - Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne |
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| Die Himmel - Kunstraum Eisengraberamt p.p., Gföhl |
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| Unaussprechlich schön - Das mystische Paradoxon in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts - Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt |
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| Northwest Mythologies - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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| SEPERATED COLOURS OF HACHMEISTER - Hachmeister Galerie, Münster |
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| Abstract Expressionism - Art Movement in the 20th Century - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran |
2002
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| Mark Tobey - Smashing Forms / Mark Tobey and Friends - Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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| Paysage, Vue de l´esprit - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Durch 150 Jahre in Schwarz - Weiss - Hachmeister Galerie, Münster |
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| Impressions - Galerie Beyeler, Basel |
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| Acquisitions nouvelles - peintures, dessins, sculptures - Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne |
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| Mark Tobey and Sam Francis: Drawings and Monoprints - Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Claude Monet - ...bis zum digitalen Impressionismus - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Klänge des Inneren Auges - Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen |
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| VISITE - Hachmeister Galerie, Münster |
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| Escape from the Vault - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI |
2001
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| Da Kandisky a Pollock - Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano |
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| Qi Yang und Mark Tobey - Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot |
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| Mark Tobey - Maria Zgraggen - Galerie Carzaniga GmbH, Basel |
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| Mark Tobey - Das graphische Werk // Georg Fritzsche - Tuschen aus den 50er Jahre - Hachmeister Galerie, Münster |
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| Künstler der Galerie - Galerie Biedermann, Munich |
2000
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| Times are changing - Auf dem Wege! Aus dem 20. Jahrhundert! - Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen |
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| Dialogue avec des compagnons de route - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Expresionismo Abstracto - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
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| Farbe > Licht - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
1999
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| What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Kunst und Demokratie Widerstand und Freiheit - Galerie Carinthia, Klagenfurt |
1998
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| Gedankenwelten. Bilder - Zeichnungen - Skulpturen - Galerie Henze & Ketterer & Triebold, Riehen |
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| "Drei Amerikaner" (Katalog Fr. 20,-) - Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos |
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| Original Scale - Apexart, New York City, NY |
1997
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| A Lasting Legacy: Selections From The Lannan Foundation Gift - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
1993
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| Entre la sérénité et l'inquiétude - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
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| Wege der Moderne- Die Sammlung Beyeler - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1986
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| Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1983
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| Sur toile et sur papier (art américain) - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1982
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| In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum 1948–1982 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1977
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| Arte USA - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Arte USA - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
1973
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| American Art at Mid-Century 1 - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1967
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| 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Vom Bauhaus bis zur Gegenwart - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1964
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| documenta 3 - Documenta, Kassel |
1961
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| American Exhibition 64th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1959
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| American Painting and Sculpture 63rd Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Two Centuries of American Art: 1750-1950 - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| documenta 2 - Documenta, Kassel |
1958
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| Personal Contacts: A Decade of Contemporary Drawings, 1948–1958 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1957
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| L'exemplaire dans l'aventure picturale des ix derniers annees II, toiles recentes - Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris |
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| L'exemplaire dans l'aventure picturale des ix derniers annees - Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris |
1956
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| Contemporary Calligraphers: John Marin, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
| Dealer Directory 18 |
France
| | Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
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Germany
| | Baukunst Galerie, Cologne
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| | ARTAX Ralph Kleinsimlinghaus Kunsthandel KG, Dusseldorf
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| | Vonderbank Artgalleries - Frankfurt/M, Frankfurt/Main
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| | Hachmeister Galerie, Münster
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Italy
| | Galleria Movimento Arte Contemporanea, Milan
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Switzerland
| | Galerie Carzaniga GmbH, Basel
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| | Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos
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| | Galerie Lovers of Fine Art, Gstaad
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| | Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
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| | Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich
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United Kingdom
| | Scolar Fine Art, London (England)
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USA
| | Yoshii Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
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Public collections 42
Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Austria
| | Neue Galerie, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
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Belgium
| | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
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Colombia
| | Museo de Arte del Banco de la República - Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogota
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France
| | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen
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| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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Germany
| | Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
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| | Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
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Iran
| | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
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Italy
| | Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna
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| | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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Spain
| | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
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| | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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Switzerland
| | Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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USA
| | Schneider Museum of Art , Ashland, OR
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| | Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
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| | Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
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| | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT
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| | The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
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| | Museum of Northwest Art - MONA, La Conner, WA
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| | Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
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| | University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
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| | Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| | Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
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| | Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| | Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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| | Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
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Catalogs
| | Drei Amerikaner Sam Francis - Paul Jenkins - Mark Tobey- Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos |
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