2006.52: Trio, from the Transitions portfolio
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.52
- People
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Mark Tobey, American (Centerville, WI 1890 - 1976 Basel, Switzerland)
François Lafranca
Edition de Beauclair, Frankfurt am Main
- Title
- Trio, from the Transitions portfolio
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1970
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/5242
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Aquatint
- Dimensions
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plate: 31.6 x 24.1 cm (12 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
sheet: 53.1 x 42.7 cm (20 7/8 x 16 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: lower right in graphite pencil: Tobey 1970.
- inscription: lower margin, graphite pencil, signed, in artist's hand: 26/75 Tobey 1970.
- chop: lower left corner, compression: Edition de Beauclair, Frankfurt am Main
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 26/75
- Standard Reference Number
- Heidenheim 1
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift in memory of Ruth Sager from Arthur B. Pardee and Ann B. Goodman
- Copyright
- © Mark Tobey / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.52
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
- These three prints are from Mark Tobey's Transitions portfolio of seven aquatints. Tobey, one of the "mystical painters of the Northwest," had become a member of the Bahai World Faith in 1918 and in 1934 visited China and Japan. His noted "white writing" style of painting--an overlay of white calligraphic style symbols on an abstract field--evolved from his study of Asian calligraphy and brush painting during this visit. Tobey spent much of his life working in the Seattle area but in 1960 moved to Basel, Switzerland. The Transitions portfolio was published in Frankfurt in 1970 and the prints clearly grow out of his "white writing" style. The titles of the prints, Trio, Devoted, and Movement in White convey the artist's life-long interest in spiritual themes.
Verification Level
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