Word: tobeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime president of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., a latex prince descended from some of the red, white and bluest blood in North America; e.g., Priscilla Mullins' John Alden, Connecticut's Revolutionary Governor Jonathan Trumbull. At home in Toronto, his closest companions are his 13-year-old beagle Tobey and his solicitors, Ricketts, Farley & Lowndes...
...29th Biennale exhibited 446 artists from 37 countries, needed 115 halls to hold 3,533 works. For the first time since Whistler won with his Little White Girl in 1895, the jury crowned an American painter. Winner of the international painting award ($2,400): Wisconsin-born Seattle Painter Mark Tobey, 67 (TiME, July 22), whose sensitive oils of squirming lines of light had already attracted critical applause. Top international prize for sculpture ($2,400) went to Spain's Eduardo Chillida, 34, whose spiky forgings were among the most avant-garde entries...
After World War II, Horiuchi made his way to Spokane and Zen Master Takizaki, who had greatly influenced Mark Tobey. His work became an exciting blend of abstraction and traditional Japanese painting. At his best, Horiuchi manages to combine a sense of the mysterious depths of an ancient heritage (often suggested by weathered scraps decorated with archaic Japanese calligraphy) with moody, grey and color-flecked images of Pacific landscape, mists and rain. Having attained a point of equipoise between East and West, Horiuchi's goal is "to impart something of the peace and serenity of an Eastern memory into...
...distinguishing mark of such leading Pacific Northwest painters as Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan is their ability to mix Zen with zest, give an Oriental slant to their Western vision. Now a major new artistic talent, who arrived at the East-West meeting point by a different route, has appeared among them. The newcomer: patient and painfully modest Paul Horiuchi, 52, a Japanese-born American who for years made his living as a railroad foreman...
Among the 143 paintings and 43 sculptures, there were some works, of course, by a handful of men who stand above fashion. Charles Sheeler's California showed a moonlit village so radiant and calm as to bring Bethlehem to mind. Mark Tobey's Pacific Circle was as boldly abstract as anything on view, yet as subtle as it was bold; it pictured the elements mingling in a gentle storm...