Mark Tobey Retrospective

This exhibition of 95 paintings, drawings and sculptures covered the expansive and varied career of Seattle-based painter Mark Tobey (1890–1976). Held between February 7 and March 9, 1960, the exhibition filled two galleries of the Pasadena Art Museum. The objects on view included portraits, landscapes, religious paintings­ and lithographs. Many of them highlighted Tobey’s “white-writing” abstract painterly style, for which the artist was particularly known. Following his retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, Tobey’s work was exhibited at venues across the world, including the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.