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...World's Fair last week there were six art shows. Two of the shows are spotty catchalls of paintings since 1950. Three others are specialties: the totem poles and sculptures of Pacific Northwest Indians; a show of Oriental jades and porcelains; a small gallery of Seattle Artist Mark Tobey's "white writing" abstractions. Seattle's most ambitious effort is its Masterpieces at the Fair...
Pause Between a Breath. He is out of the public eye these days, neglected by the chichi but not forgotten. The excellent little new museum in Ogunquit, run by Painter Henry Strater, has in past years given similar one-man shows to Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Andrew Wyeth. As an artist, Brook respects such innovators as his fellow Long Islander, the late Jackson Pollock, the master dripper. The people Brook resents are those faddists who promote abstract art and will enthuse about nothing else. He also has an oldster's dismissing attitude toward those younger artists...
...Mark Tobey...
...auguring the disintegration of the image in De Kooning's future work. It is no trick to see that the man who did this painting was the same as the one who did the free-swinging Tree That Grows in Naples. The before-and-after paintings of Mark Tobey seem to have no such relationship: in his solid little early portrait, there is no hint of his future fixation with intangibles-with waves of energy, moving forces or reflections of light. But in between the portrait and his Rive Gauche is a painting called Voice of the Doll, which...
...skyrocketing. The Albright was the first museum in the world to buy a Clyfford Still and one of the first to buy a Henry Moore. It now has at least one work by almost every major abstractionist from the late Arthur Dove and Wassily Kandinsky to Willem DeKooning. Mark Tobey and Robert Motherwell. Today, says Knox-and not many in the art world would disagree-there is only one collection of abstract work that is better, the one in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan...