Salute to Tobey

About The Artist: Mark Tobey

Although he was not immediately recognized, Mark Tobey was the pioneer in blending elements of occidental and oriental art in his low-key, mystical, calligraphic paintings, which he termed "white writing." For all their quiet unpretentiousness, his works had an impact on much of what followed in modern American art-in particular, the explosive energy of abstract expressionism. Tobey was born in Centerville, Wisconsin in 1890. As a young man he...