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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Hand by Alice Grant, Image 2.

    Alice Grant

    Hand, 2010

    Bronze

    9 x 4 x 7 in (22.86 x 10.16 x 17.78 cm)

  2. Portrait of M by Ronald L. Ruble, Image 1.

    Ronald L. Ruble

    Portrait of M, 1977

    Etching on paper

    22.5 x 15 in (57.15 x 38.1 cm)

  3. Lucindy McGriggs, Mary Gordon, John Henry Wright, Diane Wright Smith, Beatrice Wright McGowan, ... Rose Hill Church, Fisher Ferry Road, Warren County by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Lucindy McGriggs, Mary Gordon, John Henry Wright, Diane Wright Smith, Beatrice Wright McGowan, ... Rose Hill Church, Fisher Ferry Road, Warren County, 1975

    Chromogenic print

    16.25 x 24 in (41.28 x 60.96 cm)

  4. Out for a Drive, Father and Son, Phoenix Park, Dublin by Alen MacWeeney, Image 2.

    Alen MacWeeney

    Out for a Drive, Father and Son, Phoenix Park, Dublin, 1963

    Archival pigment print

    13 x 19 in (33.02 x 48.26 cm)

  5. Irina Rakobolskaya 588th/46th by Anne Noggle, Image 1.

    Anne Noggle

    Irina Rakobolskaya 588th/46th

    Gelatin silver print

    14 x 11 in (35.56 x 27.94 cm)

  6. James Garner by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    James Garner

    Ink on paper

  7. Paul Shade by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Paul Shade

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  8. Untitled by Carl Holty, Image 2.

    Carl Holty

    Untitled, 1948-1949

    Graphite and crayon on paper

    9.75 x 8 in (24.77 x 20.32 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.