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Mark Tobey
All Directions1957

Not on view
Vertical abstract work densely covered in overlapping gestural marks in brown, olive green, blue, and ochre on a tan ground, with a handwritten pencil inscription along the bottom border
Artist or Maker
Mark Tobey
United States, 1890-1976
Title
All Directions
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1957
Medium
Tempera on paper
Dimensions
24 3/4 × 19 1/8 in. (62.87 × 48.58 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.127
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.
  • Mark Tobey: a Retrospective Exhibition from Northwest Collections. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1959.
Copyright
© Estate of Mark Tobey/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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