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| Title | Artist Mark Tobey, Seattle, 1953 |
| Photographer | Scaylea, Josef |
| Date | 1953 |
| Caption | Painter Mark Tobey moved to Seattle in 1923 when he was hired to start the art department at the Cornish School, now Cornish College of the Arts. He gained national recognition as one of the "Northwest Mystics" along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan and Morris Graves, due to a September 28, 1953 Life magazine article on the Northwest School entitled "Mystic Painters of the Northwest." International fame arrived in 1959 when he became the first American since James McNeill Whistler to win first prize at the Venice Biennale. Tobey kept a studio in Seattle until the late 1960s even while traveling and living abroad. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: Josef Scaylea.
Handwritten on verso: Mark Tobey, Famous Seattle artist, 1953. |
| Subjects | Artists--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Tobey, Mark |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1993.20.229 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Josef Scaylea Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Josef Scaylea Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 20 x 16 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original print as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
