Mark Tobey Morning Grass Hand Signed Original Artwork Etching, Submit Offer

  
NO REASONABLE OFFERS REFUSED ON 6,600+ OTHER ITEMS! Hand Signed and Numbered by the artist. Hand signed by the artist. Image Size: 14" x 11". It was once mounted so it has a little bit of mounting tape on the back, but no mat stain or damage.

100 percent guarantee of authenticity. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Be sure to add me to your favorites list. Check out my other items. Mark Tobey was born in Centerville, Wisconsin in 1890.

In 1918 he converted to the Baha'i World Faith. He came to Seattle in 1923 to teach at the Cornish School of Art and continued until 1930.

He theorized that an artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms. He was influenced by the teachings of the Baha'i faith, East Asian painting, and calligraphy. Tobey came to be affiliated with the Northwest School in the 1940s and'50s and helped draw national attention to work produced in the Northwest. In 1956 he was awarded the United States National Prize in the Guggenheim International Awards and elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters; in 1958 he won first prize for painting at the Venice Biennale. In his work, Tobey focused on man, nature, God, unity and equilibrium.

He used space as a theme as well as an illusion of painting. It represented the place we live everyday, the blanket of atmosphere surrounding the Earth, and the "inner space" conceived by the mind. Tobey reacted against the post-Cubistic ideas of his time of depicting a recognizable image within a definable space and instead advocated the integration of object and space in a unified field image. Tobey is famous for his white writing paintings which cover the surface of an abstract field of color made up of thousands of brushstrokes. Tobey's work is included in public and private collections around the world including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, NY, the Tate Modern, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Mark Tobey died April 1976 in Basel, Switzerland at the age of 85. The item "Mark Tobey Morning Grass Hand Signed Original Artwork Etching, Submit Offer" is in sale since Monday, November 23, 2009. This item is in the category "Art\Art Prints". The seller is "american_design_ltd" and is located in Aurora, Colorado. This item can be shipped worldwide.

1. Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
2. Edition Size: 150
3. Subject: Abstract
4. Style: Expressionism
5. Date of Creation: 1970-1989
6. Signed?: Signed
7. Medium: Etching
8. Year: 1975
9. Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
10. Originality: Limited Edition Print
11. Color: Pink
12. Artist: Mark Tobey
13. Print Surface: Paper
14. Features: Signed
15. Width (Inches): 20
16. Height (Inches): 23