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MARC TOBEY Untitled.
Gouache on paper, 1966. 153x107 mm; 6 1/8x4 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in pen and blue ink, lower right recto.>QL> Marc Tobey (1890-1976) attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1906-08 but was largely self taught. He found work as an illustrator in Chicago and New York, where he met Marcel Duchamp and Marsden Hartley. Though his own artistic ambitions still seemed unclear at the time, his move to Seattle in 1922, where he learned calligraphy, would be important in the later development of his artistic style. He is best known for his "white writing" painitngs on a grey or evenly-colored ground, such as Broadway from 1936 now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Even toward the end of his career, Tobey still operated in this style, as seen in the present work. His intimate scale and inspiration from Eastern art and thought put him outside the mainstream of the New York School of abstract expressionism.
