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No. 1

Mark Tobey; Erker Presse, St. Gallen

Artwork Details

No. 1
1970
Mark Tobey; Erker Presse, St. Gallen
lithograph on paper
22 1/8 in x 17 7/8 in (56.2 cm x 45.4 cm);28 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in (71.28 cm x 56.04 cm);22 1/8 in x 17 7/8 in (56.2 cm x 45.4 cm);12 3/16 in x 8 9/16 in (30.95 cm x 21.75 cm)
Museum Purchase
1970/2.141

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Description

Subject Matter:

Like this print, much of Tobey's work was concerned with spirituality—he joined the Baha’i World Faith in 1918 and lived in a Japanese Zen monastery for a month in 1934—Chinese calligraphy, Persian and Arabic script, and his physical/environmental surroundings. Part of a series of works he created in the late 1960s and 1970s, this work presents an abstract composition of marks meant to create an illegible language of signs and symbols. 

Physical Description:

This print has a monochromatic black and gray abstract composition. There are circular forms of various sizes within the rectangle. The print is signed and editioned below the image (l.r.) "Tobey" and (l.l.) "2/46" and titled at the bottom of the page (l.r.) "No. 1". 

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