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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Lost in My Life (Chiral Lines 3) by Rachel Perry, Image 1.

    Rachel Perry

    Lost in My Life (Chiral Lines 3), 2016

    Digital pigment

    55 x 36 in (139.7 x 91.44 cm)

  2. Beyond the Great Eclipse: Newsweek The Riots In Color by Edgar Arceneaux, Image 2.

    Edgar Arceneaux

    Beyond the Great Eclipse: Newsweek The Riots In Color, 2009

    Direct to plate photogravure etching and aquatint on Somerset white paper

    25 x 17.5 in (63.5 x 44.45 cm)

  3. Untitled (79-12-4) by Garo Zareh Antreasian, Image 1.

    Garo Zareh Antreasian

    Untitled (79-12-4), 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    18.25 x 15 in (46.36 x 38.1 cm)

  4. Four Graces by Adrian Van Suchtelen, Image 1.

    Adrian Van Suchtelen

    Four Graces, 1978

    Etching on paper

    12.625 x 14.875 in (32.07 x 37.78 cm)

  5. Double X by Doug Warner, Image 1.

    Doug Warner

    Double X, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

    17.25 x 15 in (43.82 x 38.1 cm)

  6. Prayer III by Jonathan Clemens, Image 1.

    Jonathan Clemens

    Prayer III, 1977

    Woodcut on paper

    13 x 12.5 in (33.02 x 31.75 cm)

  7. From The Forest by Donald Richard Sexauer, Image 1.

    Donald Richard Sexauer

    From The Forest, 1977

    Etching and aquatint on paper

    15 x 17.125 in (38.1 x 43.5 cm)

  8. Chance and Order VI by Kenneth Martin, Image 1.

    Kenneth Martin

    Chance and Order VI, 1977

    Screenprint on paper

    27 x 27 in (68.58 x 68.58 cm)

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About the artist

Mark Tobey

American

1890–1976

Mark Tobey studied at The Art Institute of Chicago and worked as a fashion illustrator for McCall’s magazine. He had his first solo exhibition in 1917 at M. Knoedler & Co., New York. After converting to the Baha’i World Faith, he began his lifelong traveling. Tobey moved to Seattle to teach at the Cornish School of Allied Arts. In the following years, he traveled to Paris, the Middle East, and finally Devonshire, England. Tobey taught at Dartington Hall, while also traveling throughout Mexico, the United States, and Asia. Returning to Seattle in 1938, he studied music theory and had his first retrospective at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Tobey became part of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded a Guggenheim International Award. He won the City of Venice painting prize at the Venice Biennale and became the first American painter to have a solo show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Tobey is known for densely calligraphic paintings and prints. His works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He passed away in Basel, Switzerland in 1976.