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Mark Tobey (1890-1976)

Aliases: Marc Tobey

Professions: Painter

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    Mark Tobey (1890-1976)

    Mark Tobey (1890-1976)

Mark Tobey Biography

(b Centerville, WI, 11 Dec 1890; d Basle, Switzerland, 24 April 1976). American painter. In 1893 the family moved to Jacksonville, TN, but because of the poor educational facilities there they returned a year later to Wisconsin. Moving again in 1906 to Hammond, IN, Tobey attended high school and on Saturdays travelled to Chicago to study the techniques of watercolour and oil painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, this being his only formal art training. In 1909 the family moved to Chicago where, because of his father’s illness, he was forced to give up his studies and find employment. After various jobs he eventually became a fashion illustrator. During this period he discovered the great art of the past, first through reproductions and then by visiting the Art Institute of Chicago. He was especially attracted to Italian Renaissance paintings and to works by a variety of artists including Frans Hals, John Singer Sargent and Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida.

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