Mark Tobey
Prophetic Light—Dawn

Prophetic Light—Dawn

© Mark Tobey / Seattle Art Museum, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Prophetic Light—Dawn
Prophetic Light—Dawn
ArtistAmerican, 1890–1976
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Prophetic Light—Dawn
Date1958
MediumTempera with colored pencil on Japanese paper tinted with sumi ink, stretched over canvas
Dimensions60 1/4 × 35 in. (153 × 88.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number64.3
Not on view

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Provenance[Willard Gallery, New York, 1958-1963]; purchased by MFAH, 1964.
Exhibition History"Lipton, Rothko, Smith, Tobey," Museum of Modern Art, New York, XIXX Biennale, Venice, June 14–October 19, 1958.

"Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration," St. Albans School, Washington, May 21–June 3, 1959.

"60 American Painters," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, April 3–May 8, 1960.

"Mark Tobey," The Phillips Collection, Washington, May 6–June 6, 1962.

"Mark Tobey," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, March 19–May 8, 1966.

"Mark Tobey Retrospective," Dallas Museum of Art, March 2–April 21, 1968.

"White on White," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, December 17, 1971–January 30, 1972.

"Grey is the Color," Rice University, Houston, October 18, 1973–January 6, 1974.

"Tribute to Mark Tobey," Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, June 7–September 8, 1974; Seattle Art Museum, September 27–November 10, 1974; St. Louis Art Museum, December 6, 1974–January 12, 1975.

"Modern American Painting," Nationaly Gallery, Athens, September 20–November 7, 1982.

"Darkness and Light," Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, January 23–March 28, 1993.

"Direction and Diversity: Twentieth Century Art in the Museum Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 21–September 3, 1988.

Residence of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Elkins, Jr., Houston, May 26–September 1, 1989.

"Mark Tobey," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, November 11, 1997–January 12, 1998.

"Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 8, 2007–March 2, 2008.

"Mark Tobey: Threading Light," Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, May 5–September 10, 2017

"Mark Tobey: Threading Light," Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, November 4, 2017–March 11, 2018.

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