MARK TOBEY (1890-1976)Wisconsin-born Mark Tobey is most often associated with the American artists of the Northwest School; he spent most of his life in Seattle before moving permanently to Basel, Switzerland, in 1960. A deeply spiritual artist, he explored Chinese calligraphy, Persian and Arabic script, and once spent a month at a Japanese Zen monastery. He was a founder of the Free and Creative Art School and the art department of The Cornish School, both in Seattle, and also taught at Yale University and Dartington Hall (in Devonshire, England). His works are characterized by calligraphic markings that build-up the space and reach across the image from side to side and top to bottom, relating them to the 'all-over' compositions of Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollock.
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