Mark Tobey

 

 

1890

Mark Tobey is born in Centerville, Wisconsin, USA on December 11th.

1911

Tobey moves to New York as a fashion illustrator.

1913

He studies at the Art Institute, Chicago.

1917

Portraits by Mark Tobey, M. Knoedler & Co, Inc., New York

1918

Tobey enters the Baha'i religious community.

1922

He teaches at the Cornish School of Allied Arts in Seattle.

1923/24

During this period he makes the most important encounter of his life following his contact with the Baha'i teachings. He becomes friendly with Teng Guei, a Chinese student at the University of Washington, who teaches him the techniques of East Asian painting (brushwork, calligraphy and compositional methods) and spirituality.

1928

Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings by Mark Tobey, solo exhibition in The Arts Club of Chicago

1928/29

Paintings and Drawings by Mark Tobey, Romany Marie's Café Gallery, New York

1929

Alfred Barr Jr. invites him to take part in the exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans planned for the winter of 1930/31 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1930

Cornish School, Seattle

1931

Retrospective, Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York

Drawings and Watercolours by Mark Tobey, Harry Hartman Bookstore and Gallery, Seattle

1931-37

Tobey is "resident artist" in Dartington Hall, Devonshire, Great Britain. He gets to know Pearl S. Buck, Aldous Huxley, Bernard Leach, Rabindranath Tagore, Rudi Shankar and many others who are also teaching there and for whom, as for himself, the connection of oriental and western ideas is very important.

1934

Trip to Europe and Asia. He spends a month in a Zen monastery near Kyoto, Japan. He studies Zen teachings, Zen painting, meditates and spends much time studying calligraphy. In Japan Tobey finds - as he later described it himself - the "most decisive calligraphic impulse" which would later lead him to the "white writing". At the same time, however, he is aware that he is and will always be a man of the West.

First museum solo exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum

Paintings and Drawings by Mark Tobey, Beaux-Arts Gallery, Bruton Place, London, Great Britain; Paul Elder Gallery, San Francisco

1935

He paints the works Broadway and Welcome Hero in Dartington Hall, Devonshire, Great Britain. In these works Tobey uses the "white writing" style for the first time.

Stanley Rose Gallery, Hollywood

1940

Tobey receives his first Award: Baker Memorial Award, Northwest Annual Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum

The Arts Club of Chicago

1941

The music which plays such an important role in his life and his paintings increasingly absorbs him.

1942

For his work Broadway he is awarded a purchase prize on the occasion of the exhibition Artists for Victory at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Seattle Art Museum

1944

Solo exhibition at Willard Gallery, New York. Catalogue introduced by Sidney Janis. This gallery continues to exhibit his work at regular intervals. This period also marks the start of his national recognition.

1945

Willard Gallery, New York

1945/46

Paintings by Mark Tobey. Solo exhibition at the Portland Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Arts Club of Chicago; Alger House, Detroit Institute of Arts. Tobey's solo exhibitions and invitations to national group exhibitions increase.

1946

Willard Gallery, New York

The Arts Club of Chicago Alger House, Detroit Institute of Arts

1947

Willard Gallery, New York

Phillips Academy, Andover

Albany Gallery, Buffalo

Baltimore Museum of Art

1948

He takes part in the Venice Biennale, Italy (also in 1956, 1958 and 1964).

1949

Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston

Willard Gallery, New York

1950

Mark Tobey. Watercolors, Willard Gallery, New York

1951

Mark Tobey Retrospective, solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, the University of Washington, the Henry Gallery, Seattle and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art bring about his American breakthrough.

Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston

Willard Gallery, New York

Tobey takes part in the São Paulo Biennale, Brazil (also in 1955).

1952

Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

Zoe Dusanne Gallery, San Francisco

1953

Willard Gallery, New York

1954

Start of the Meditative Series. First solo exhibition at Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle, which represents Tobey's works on the West Coast.

Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston

Willard Gallery, New York

1955

Gallery of Art Interpretation, Art Institute, Chicago

Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco

Recent Paintings by Mark Tobey, Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles

Start of his international recognition and a period of regular exhibitions in Europe.

First solo exhibition in Europe at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France

Retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Great Britain

1956

He takes part in the exhibition American Painting at the Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain, with Kline, de Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko and Still.

Tobey becomes a permanent member of the Institut National des Arts et Lettres, Paris, France and he beginns the series Above the Earth.

Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston

He receives the Guggenheim International Award.

1957

Tobey is awarded the American Institute of Architects' Fine Arts Medal

The year of the sumi inks.

Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle

Sumi Paintings by Mark Tobey, Willard Gallery, New York

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada

1958

Tobey receives the Major International Award for Painting at the XXIX. Biennale, Venice, Italy.

Mark Tobey, San José State College

Œuvres récentes de Mark Tobey, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France

St. Albans School, Washington

Tobey takes part in the world exhibition 50 ans d’art moderne in Brussels, Belgium.

1959/60

Mark Tobey. A Retrospective exhibition from Northwest Collections, Seattle Art Museum; Portland Art Museum; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Pasadena Art Museum; M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco.

Tobey takes part in Documenta II, Kassel, Germany (also in Documenta III, 1964)

1960

Tempere e inchiostri di Mark Tobey, Notizie, Associazione Arti Figurative, Turine, Italy

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France

Masterworks by Mark Tobey. 16 Masterpieces on Loan from the Arthur and Joyce Dahl Collection, Frederic Hobbs Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco

He is nominated as member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tobey rejects this nomination. In July he moves to and settles in Basel, Switzerland.

1960/61

Tobey Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

1961

He receives the First Prize at The 1961 International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture at the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Solo exhibition at Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland. From this point on he works with the gallery on a regular basis.

Retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France

Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

AFA, Monterey Peninsula College Library Gallery

Royal S. Marks Gallery, New York

1963

Mark Tobey and the Seattle Public Market, Seattle Art Museum

Mark Tobey, American Federation of Arts Galleries, Carmel

1964

Mark Tobey. Seattle Market Gouaches, Long Beach Museum of Art

1965

Les monotypes de Tobey, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France; Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland

Recent Paintings by Mark Tobey, Willard Gallery, New York

Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle

Mark Tobey, Fresno Arts Center

Mark Tobey, The Gallery January

1966

Mark Tobey: Works 1933-1966, Retrospective at the Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, the Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, and the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

1967

Mark Tobey. Oils, Temperas, Small Monotypes, Willard Gallery, New York

Mark Tobey. Monoprints, Galerie Nordquist, Malmö, Sweden

1967/68

Mark Tobey. Paintings from the collection of Joyce and Arthur Dahl, Stanford University, Stanford Art Gallery; University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln; Roosevelt University, Chicago; University of California, The Art Gallery, Santa Barbara

1968

He gets honoured in Paris with the title Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Retrospective at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

State Capitol Museum, Olympia

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France

Hanover Gallery, London, Great Britain

1969

Paintings and Drawings by Mark Tobey, Peale House Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Mark Tobey. Paintings from Private Collectors, Bon Marché, Seattle

1970/71

He receives the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Award.

Tobey's 80. A Retrospective, Seattle Art Museum

Mark Tobey. Tempera-Blätter, Aquatinten von 1970, Lithographien 1961-1970, Galerie Günther Franke, Munich, Germany

Tobey. Exhibition on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

1971

Tobey. Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Galleria d’Arte il Fauno, Turine, Italy

Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy

Mark Tobey. Peintures, Temperas et Aquatintes de 1942-1971, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland

Mark Tobey. Temperabilder, Lithographien, Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Mark Tobey. Monotypien, Tempera, Mischtechniken, Druckgrafik, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

National Academy of Design, New York

Willard Gallery, New York

Galerie Marbach, Paris, France

Mark Tobey. Paintings and Drawings from 1935 to the Present, Humboldt Galleries, San Francisco

1977

Omaggio a Mark Tobey, L’Arco, Rome

Mark Tobey, Galleria Cesarea, Genova, Italy

1978

Omaggio a Mark Tobey, Galleria Navigliovenezia, Venice, Italy

1979

Mark Tobey. Graphics, Museum of Art, Indianapolis

1982

Galerie Jacqueline Schotland, Basel, Switzerland

1983

Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf, Germany

Tribute to Mark Tobey, Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Chicago

1984

Mark Tobey - City Paintings, Retrospective at the National Gallery of Art, Washington

1985

The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu, Tokyo, Japan

1986/87

Mark Tobey. Tempera, Gouaches, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Erker-Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1987

Mark Tobey. Graphische Arbeiten, Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Giancarlo Apicella, Bonn, Germany

1988

Mark Tobey, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

Mark Tobey - A New Look, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane

1989

Mark Tobey. Between worlds. Opere 1935-1975, Retrospective at the Museo d'Arte, Mendrisio, Switzerland, and the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Galerie Döbele, Stuttgart, Germany

Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

1990

Philippe Daverio Gallery, New York

Mark Tobey - Späte Werke. Bilder auf Styropor, Radierungen, Stadtmuseum Siegburg; Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

Mark Tobey - Das graphische Werk, curated by H. Hachmeister, Galerie Siegert, Basel, Switzerland

Mark Tobey. Works on Paper from Northern California and Seattle Collections. Celebrating the centenary of the artist's birth, Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford Art Gallery

1990/91

Mark Tobey. Pour un centenaire. Peintures, monotypes, encres de Chine, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland

Mark Tobey. A Centennial Exhibition, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

Jahrgang 1890. Mark Tobey, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

1991

Mark Tobey - Paintings from the 1950s, Philippe Daverio Gallery, New York

Valley Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner

Mark Tobey - Werke / Œuvres 1945-1975, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

1991/92

Mark Tobey - Malerei auf Papier, Graphik, curated by H. Hachmeister, Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg, Belgium

1992

Mark Tobey - Originale und Graphik, Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1993

Mark Tobey - Retrospektive, curated by H. Hachmeister, Schloß Cappenberg, Selm, Germany

Mark Tobey, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway

1993/94

Mark Tobey - Works from Five Decades, Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle

1994

Galería Jorge Mara, Madrid, Spain

Mark Tobey. Paintings 1920-1960, Yoshii Gallery, New York

1995

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain

Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Lisboa, Portugal

Mark Tobey - Myriad Lights, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

1995/96

Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1996

Luhring Augustine, New York

1997

Mark Tobey 1890-1976. Peintures et monotypes, gravures, Musée Hébert,

La Tronche/Grenoble, France

1997/98

Retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, curated by C. de Barañano and M. Bärmann, Madrid, Spain

Mark Tobey - Temperabilder, Graphik, curated by H. Hachmeister, Kunstverein Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany

Mark Tobey - Space lines, Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1998

Mark Tobey - Retrospective, Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle

1998/99

Closeness of Distance. Khmer sculptures and Mark Tobey paintings, Emil Mirzakhanian, Palazzo Melzi, Milan, Italy; Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

1999

Die Nähe des Entfernten - Mark Tobey, curated by H. Hachmeister, Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany

Mark Tobey - Important works from a friend, Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle

Mark Tobey, Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, Basel, Switzerland

2000

Mark Tobey - Sam Francis, Galerie Döbele, Dresden, Germany

Mark Tobey - Selected works, Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle

Mark Tobey, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany

2001

Schnittstellen - Westliche Moderne und die Kulturen Asiens II: Mark Tobey, curated by H. Hachmeister, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany

Mark Tobey. Das graphische Werk, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

Mark Tobey, Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, Basel, Switzerland

Mark Tobey - Inneres Betrachten, Graphische Sammlung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany

Mark Tobey. Bilder von 1940 bis 1975, Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2002/03

Mark Tobey - Smashing Forms and Mark Tobey and Friends, Seattle Art Museum

2003

Mark Tobey - Paintings, Drawings, original graphic work, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, Cal.

2003/04

Mark Tobey, Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany

2004

Mark Tobey, Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2005

Mark Tobey, Galerie Carzaniga, Basel, Switzerland

Mark Tobey - works from 1954 to 1970, Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, Great Britain
Mark Tobey - Light - Space, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany
Mark Tobey, Movimento arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2006
Night Sounds - Nocturnal Visions of Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Mark Tobey, Galerie Carzaniga, Basel, Switzerland

2009

Mark Tobey, Galleria Blu, Milan, Italy

Mark Tobey – poeticamente astratto, Agnellini Arte Moderna, Brescia, Italy

Mark Tobey – Originals, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2010

Mark Tobey – Les Tirages Retrouvés, Galerie Rusterholtz, Basel

2011

Mark Tobey – Selected works 1944-1970, Achim Moeller Fine Art, Berlin

2013

Mark Tobey, Thomas Williams Gallery, London, GB

2013/14

Mark Tobey -  Between East and West, Achim Moeller Fine Art, Berlin

2015

Mark Tobey, Galerie Carzaniga, Basel

2017

Mark Tobey – Vibrating Space, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

Mark Tobey – Luce Filante, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

Mark Tobey and the Calligraphic Line, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon

Mark Tobey, The Greenstein Lab, Seattle

Mark Tobey, Galerie Knöll, Basel Switzerland

2017/18

Mark Tobey – Threading Light, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy Andover, Mass.

2018/19

Mark Tobey, Pace Gallery, New York

2020/21

Mark Tobey – Tobey or not to be ?, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris

2021

Mark Tobey – Nature’s Patterns, Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York

Group shows (selected)

 

1921

Drawings, Cotton Club, New York

19 American Painters, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1930/31

Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1931

Americans, Havard Society for Contemporary Art, Cambridge

1939

American Art Today, New York World’s Fair, New York

1940

19th International Exhibition of Watercolors, Art Institute, Chicago

1942

Artists for Victory, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1943

Contemporary American Oil Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington

Romantic Painting in America, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1944

Exhibition of Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, Mortimer Brandt Gallery,

New York

40 American Moderns, Putzel’s The 67 Gallery, New York

1st Annual Portrait of America Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1945

13rd International Watercolor Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York

31st Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum

2nd Annual Portrait of America Exhibition, Rockefeller Center, New York

Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA

1945/46

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1946

Modern Religious Paintings, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York

Fourteen Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

8th Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Artists West of the Mississippi, Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs

Contemporary American Paintings, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

American Paintings from the 18th Century to the Present, Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain

57th Annual American Exhibition of Watercolors and Drawings, Art Institute, Chicago

New Accessions U.S.A., Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs

1946/47

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1947

Fourteen Americans, Museumof Modern Art, New York

American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

9th Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Artists West of the Mississippi, Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs

1947/48

Ten Painters of the Pacific Northwest, Munson-Williams Proctor Institut, Utica; Philipps Academy, Andover; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Museum of Art, Baltimore

58th Annual Exhibition of Watercolors and Drawings, Art Institute, Chicago

2nd Annual Exhibition of Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

1948

Tobey, Gorky, Rothko, Stamos in the USA pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York (with Reinhardt, Rothko, Pollock, Motherwell a.o.)

Rotunda Gallery, San Francisco (with Anderson, Callahan, Isaacs Patterson, Smith)

10th Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Artists West of the Mississippi, Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs

New York private collections, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1948/49

59th Annual American Exhibition of Watercolors and Drawings, Art Institute, Chicago

3rd Annual Exhibition of Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

1949

11st Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Artists West of the Mississippi, Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs

Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, University of Illinois, Urbana

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Special Exhibition in conjunction with the Western Round Table on Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Art

The Intrasubjectives, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York

Contemporary Paintings from Great Britain, the U.S. and France, Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Morris Graves, Mark Tobey, Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston

An Exhibition for Modern Living, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Michigan

travelled to New York and Chicago

1949/50

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1950

Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana

From the Armory Show to the Present, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach

American Painting 1950, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

36th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum

Contemporary American Painting, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Callahan, Tobey and Graves, Portland Art Museum

Young painters in U.S. and France, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Black or White: Paintings by European and American Artists, Kootz Gallery, New York

Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1950/51

Trio, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Art League, Tacoma; Museum of Los Angeles; Portland Art Museum; University of British Columbia, Vancouver

American Painting Today, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

4th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

1951

Tokyo Independent Art Exhibition, Ueno Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

16th International Watercolor Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York

40 Americans. 1940-1950, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Exhibition of Paintings, University of Colorado, Boulder

Significant American Painting, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Amerikanische Malerei. Werden und Gegenwart, Rathaus Schöneberg and Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany

37th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum

60th Annual American Exhibition, Art Institute, Chicago

Contemporary American Painting, City Art Museum, St. Louis

Revolution and Tradition, Brooklyn Museum, New York

American Vanguard for Paris, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; Galerie de France, Paris, France

1952

Twentieth Century American Paintings, Wildenstein Galleries, New York

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

10 American Abstract Painters, Rose Fried Gallery, New York

Saint Louis Collects, City Art Museum, St. Louis

Expressionism in American Painting, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

Light and the Painter, Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs

38 th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Exhibition of Contemporary Religion, Union Theological Seminary, New York

Regards sur la peinture américaine, Galerie de France, Paris, France

Un art autre, Galerie Facchetti, Paris, France

The Artists' Vision, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines

1953

Modern Painting, Ways and Means, Contemporary Art Association, Houston

14th Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Artists West of the Mississippi, Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

39th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum

Seven American Watercolorists, exposé au Japon, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, subsequently travelling to Tokyo, Osake, Ube, Fukuoka, Sasey, Nagoy, Takamatsu, Japan

1954

9 American Painters of Today, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Signes Autres, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France

American Painting 1954, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

June Nye-Fay Chong Exhibition, Otto Seligman Gallery, Seattle

High Spots, Contemporary Arts Inc., New York

Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston

Caratteri della Pittura d'oggi, Galleria dello Spazio, Rome, Italy

Le Dessin Contemporain aux Etats Unis, Pavillon Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France

61st American Exhibition, Art Institute, Chicago

Work in Progress - Paintings by Lee Milliken and Mark Tobey, Detroit Institute of Arts

1955

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Tendences actuelles, Kunsthalle Bern; Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (with Pollock, Matthieu, Michaux, Riopelle, Trancredi and Wols)

Moderne Kunst aus den USA. Auswahl aus den Sammlungen des Museum of Modern Art, New York,

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris France

Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana

Galerie Stadler, Paris, France

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Cinquante ans d’art aux Etats-Unis, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

41st Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum

IIIrd Biennial of Sao Paulo, United States' Representation: Pacific Coast Art

1955/56

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1956

Manessier, Singler, Poliakoff, Tobey, Vieira da Silva, Galerie d'Art Moderne, Basel, Switzerland

Japanische Kalligraphie und Westliche Zeichen, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

Contemporary Calligraphers - John Marin, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Pictures collected by Yale Alumni, Yale University, New Haven

Exhibition of Works by newly elected Members of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

Structures en Devenir, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France

Modern Masters, Rose Fried Gallery, New York

42nd Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum

Moderne Kunst aus USA. Aus den Sammlungen des MoMa, New York, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

Pacific Coast Art - United States' Representation at the IIIrd Biennial of São Paulo, Cincinnati Art Museum; Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs; San Francisco Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

I pittori Americani e la citta, XXVIII Biennale Venezia, organized by Art Institute Chicago

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Contemporary American Painters, Darmstadt, Germany; Lille, Marseille, Paris, Tours, Toulouse, Rouen, France

Paintings, Sculpture and Prints. Modern Art in the United States, The Tate Gallery,  London, Great Britain

1957

Peintres contemporains américains, Musée Galliera, Paris, France

Contemporary American Watercolors, University Renaissance Society, Chicago

3rd International Contemporary Art Exhibition, New Delhi, India

16th Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Artists West of the Mississippi, Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs

1884-1956 an American Collector: Edward Wales Root, Munson-Williams, Proctor Institute, Utica

American Paintings, 1945-1957, Institute of Art, Minneapolis

American Painters, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

The Edward J. Callagher III. Memorial Collection, University of Arizona, Tucson

Hartung, Francis, Tobey, Pollock, Riopelle, Galerie Kléber, Paris, France

Eight American Artists – Paintings and Sculpture, City of York Art Gallery, York, Great Britain

1957/58

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Pacific Circuit, United States Information Agency, Seattle Art Museum

1958

Contemporary American Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

Nature in Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Rome - New York, Art Foundation, Rome, Italy

Peinture de l'Ouest, Sculpture de l'Est des Etats Unis, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux,

and Centre Culturel Américain, Paris France

50 ans d’Art Moderne, World Exhibition Brussels, Belgium

The Museum and its Friends, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

10th Anniversary Exhibition. Current Painting Styles and their Sources, Art Center, Des Moines

9 Generations of American Painting, Institute of Arts and Lawrence Fleischman Collection, Detroit

American Paintings and Drawings from the Edward W. Root Bequest, Munson-Williams, Proctor Institute, Utica

Islands Beyond, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Exhibition of Prize-Winning Paintings and Sculptures at the Venice Biennale, Italy

44th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum

A Decade of Contemporary American Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Moderne Kunst in Wuppertaler Privatbesitz, Kunstmuseum Wuppertal, Germany

1958/59

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Orient - Occident. Rencontres et Influences durant 50 siècles d'Art, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France

Pittsburgh International Bicentennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Some Contemporary Works of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art

1959

V. Anniversary Celebration, St. Albans School, Washington

Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana

The Collection of the Sara Roby Foundation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Arte Nuova. Esposizione Internationale di Pittura e Scultura, Circolo degli Artisti, Turine, Italy

Paintings and Sculptures of the Pacific Northwest, Portland Art Museum

American National Exhibition, Moscou, Russia

Twentyfive years of American painting, City Art Museum, St. Louis

IV. Exhibition of Modern Art, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg

Neue Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1958, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

The Museum and its friends. 18 living american artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Paintings and Sculpture from the American National Exhibition in Moscou, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Signposts of 20th Century Art, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Dallas

1959/60

63rd American Exhibition, Art Institute, Chicago

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Neue Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1958, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany

Ten Modern Masters of American Art: 30 works selected from Joseph H.Hishhorn Collection, travelling tour, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Sacramento, Nashville, Roanoke, New York, Columbia, Josyln, Fort Lauderdale, Indianapolis

1960

Contemporary American Painting, Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus

Art Lending Service Retrospective. 1950-1960, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Antagonismes, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre Paris, France

Art from Ingres to Pollock, University of California, Berkeley

Business buys American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

60 American Painters, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Hommage à Jeanne Bucher 1925-1960, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France

Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture collected by Yale Alumni, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

American Art 1910-1960, Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger, M. Knoedler & Co. Gallery, New York

Collection Thompson, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

The Current Scene. American Painting, Esther Stuttman Gallery, New York

Paths of Abstract Art, Cleveland Museum of Art

1960/61

Annual Exhibition. Sculpture and Drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Sammlung G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany

1961

64th American Exhibition, Art Institute, Chicago

Collection de M. et Mme A. M. Burden, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Moderne Malerei seit 1945 aus der Sammlung Dotremont, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

La Pittura Moderna Straniera nelle Collezioni private Italiane, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turine, Italy

Mostra della Moda Stile Costume - Da Boldini a Pollock, Turine, Italy

10 Americans, Art Institute, Milwaukee

30th Anniversary Exhibition. American Art of our Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turine, Italy; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

1961/62

100 Paintings from the G. David Thompson Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

Annual Exhibition. Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1962

The Artist's Environment - West Coast, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth

Artisti Americani, Notizie, Torino Italy

Dessins contemporains, Galerie J. Massol, Paris, France

Art Since 1950, World's Fair, Seattle

Exhibition of Work by Grand Prize Winners at Venice Biennale 1948-1960, Ca'Pesaro, Venice, Italy

Gegenwart bis 1962, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

Amerikanische Zeichnungen 1942 – 1961, Städtische Kunstsammlungen Bonn, Germany

1962/63

Forty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum

1962-1965

Paintings from the Joseph H.Hishhorn Collection, travelling tour:Knoedler, New York; Currier Gallery, New Hampshire; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Evansv. and Science, Indiana; Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica NY; Minneapolis Institute of Arts;Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City; Art Gallery, Memphis; Atlanta Art Association; Saginaw Art Museum, Michigan; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brooklyn Museum, New York

1963

Arp, Bissier, Nicholson, Tobey, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

Arp, Bissier, Nicholson, Tobey, Valenti, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Twenty-Eighth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington

28th Biennial Exhibition, Venice, Italy

Willard Gallery, New York

Contemporary American painting and sculpture, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign

Painting and Sculpture, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis

Art since 1900. Privately owned in Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Thirty Contemporary American Paintings, Battle Creek Civic Art Center, Michigan

Eleventh Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Urbana

Collector's Choice, Denver Art Museum

The New Tradition - Modern Americans before 1940, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington

Aspects of Twentieth Century Art, Marlborough Fine Art Limited, London, Great Britain

Twenty-Six American Artists from the Collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Pacific Northwest Art - The Haseltine Collection, University of Oregon; Museum of Art, Eugene

Art Contemporain, Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris, France

La grande aventure de l'art du XXe siècle, Château des Rohan, Strassburg, France

Collection of 20th Century Art, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Dallas

1963/64

Paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Small Paintings of Large Import, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

1964

New York, Downtown Gallery, New York

Two Hundred Years of American Painting, City Art Museum, St. Louis

Treasures of Twentieth Century Art from the Maremont Collection, Washington Gallery of Modern Art

Abstrakte amerikanische Malerei, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany

American Painting 1910 to 1960. A Special Exhibition Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Association of College Unions, Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington

Selections from the Guiberson Collection, Fort Worth Art Center

The Friends Collect. Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Gallery Group, Willard Gallery, New York

An Anthology of Modern American Painting, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Art Association

Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Willard Gallery, New York

American Drawings, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Art USA Now - The Johnson Collection of Contemporary American Painting, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France

Pollock, Burry, Tobey, Notizie, Associazione Arti Figurative, Turine, Italy

Between the Fairs. Twenty-Five Years of American Art, 1939-1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Bilanz Internationale Malerei seit 1950, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

L'écriture du peintre, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France

Lettering by Modern artists, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Painting & Sculpture of a Decade 54 – 64, Tate Gallery, London

1964/65

The 1964 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington

1965

International '65. A Selection from the 1964 Pittsburgh International, Part Two, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

A Decade of American Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Art in Science, Albany Institute of History and Art, New York

The Seashore. Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Malerei des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

Kunst in Freiheit. Moore, Dubuffet, Tobey, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria

Pacific Heritage, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

Pazifisches Erbe, Amerika-Haus, Berlin, Germany

1965/66

Annual Exhibition. Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1966

Greetings !, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Collections of Sara Hildèn-Enroth, The Art Museum of Tampere, Finland

Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Past and Present - Two Hundred and Fifty Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington

American Landscape. A changing Frontier, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington

Fifty Years of Modern Art, 1916-1966, Cleveland Museum of Art

Painting and Sculpture by Americans of our Times, Museum of Art, Ogunquit

Paintings by American Masters - Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Kalamazoo Art Institute, Michigan

Some Friends Revisited, Dayton Art Institute

U.S.A. Art Vivant, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France

Two Decades of American Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, International Council, New York; Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan; New Delhi, India; Victoria and New South Wales, Australia

Thirtieth Anniversary. Prints, Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, Willard Gallery, New York

Modern Masters – Drawings and watercolors, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. New York

1967

Selected Works from two Generations of European and American Artists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Collectors' Items, Akron Art Institute

Trends in Painting and Sculpture, Newark Museum

The Collection of Sara Hildén, Art Museum of Hämeenlinna, Finland

American Painting. The 1940s, American Federation of Arts, New York; Cultural Affairs Committee of the University of Georgia (travelling exhibition)

The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, Yale University Art Gallery,

New Haven

Focus on Light, The New Jersey State Museum Cultural Center, Trenton

Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum Collection, Museum of Art, Ogunquit

American Twentieth Century Watercolors from Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Albany Institute of History and Art, New York

Treasures from Inventory I. Seventeen Loves, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

The Poetry of Vision - An International Exhibition of Modern Painting and Ancient Celtic Art, Royal Dublin Society, Ireland

Perspective, Visual Arts Gallery, New York

10 ans d'art vivant: 1955-1965, Foundation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France

Decade.7. Contemporary American Art, Southern Illinois University

1967/68

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Petits Formats, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

1968

The Sidney Janis and Harriet Janis Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art etc. (travelling exhibition through eight american institutions 1968-1970)

Works of Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr., City Art Museum, St. Louis

Betty Parsons' Private Collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York

International Group Exhibition. Oil Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours and Sculpture, Waddington Fine Arts Limited, Montreal, Canada

The Neuberger Collection - An American Collection. Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington

Painting and Sculpture today - '68, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis

American Art since 1850, Maxwell Galleries Ltd., San Francisco

Summer Group, Gordon Woodside Gallery, Seattle

East Coast - West Coast Painting, Oklahoma Center and Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa

From El Greco to Pollock. Early and late works by European and American Artists, Baltimore Museum of Art

The Collection of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, Milwaukee Art Center

Art of the Seattle - First National Bank Collection, Seattle Art Museum

The Machine seen at the end of the Mechanical Age, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Selections from the Personal Collection of Morris Graves, Humboldt Galleries, San Francisco

1969

Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Disappearance and Reappearance of the Image, International Art Program, National Collection of Fine Arts (travelling exhibition, circulated to five european institutions, opened at Sala Dalles, Bucharest, Romania and closing at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium)

The One Hundred and Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition - Watercolors, Prints, Drawings, Peale House Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Jacques Kaplan's Private Collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York

Group Show, Willard Gallery, New York

1969/70

Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1970

Moon and Space, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

The American Scene, 1900-1970, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington

'Testament to Taste' - Works of Art from the Estate of Edward Waldo Forbes, Doris Meltzer Gallery, New York

Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Summer Time, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

Paintings and Drawings by Reginald Marsh - Paintings and Sculptures of Our Times, Museum of Art, Ogunquit

Against Order and Chance, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

L'art vivant aux Etats-Unis, Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France

1970/71

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

1971

One Hundred and Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition. Oil Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Arts, Watercolor, National Academy of Design, New York

Drawings USA/71, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul

Inner Spaces / Outer Limits, Lerner-Misrachi Gallery, New York

"Was die Schönheit sei, das weiß ich nicht". Künstler - Theorie - Werk. 2. Biennale Nürnberg 1971, Germany

The Artist as Adversary, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971/72

Drawings in Saint Paul from the permanent collection of the Minnesota Museum of Art, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul

1972

From the 'Fifties'. A Selection of Works on Paper, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Drawn in America, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Art of the Thirties. The Pacific Northwest, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

Spring, Willard Gallery, New York

Paintings by Harmon Neil - Painting and Sculpture by Americans of Our Times, Museum of Art, Ogunquit

Von Venus zu Venus, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

Amerikanische Graphik seit 1960, Bündner Kunsthaus, Chur, Switzerland

1973

Twenty-Five Years of American Painting, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa

Twenty-Third National Exhibition of Prints, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, Washington

Contemporary Drawings, Willard Gallery, New York

Works on Paper. The Museum of Modern Art, New York

L’Espace lyrique - L'action painting, l'abstraction lyrique et leurs environs: le signe, la tache, le nuage … des années cinquante à nos jours, Centre d'Art Contemporain de l'Abbaye de Beaulieu, Ginals-Lexos, France

1973/74

The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York;  University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park; Finch College Museum of Art, New York; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

American Art - Mid Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington

1974

Harmonies secrètes, Galerie de Bellechasse, Paris, France

Surrealität - Bildrealität 1924 - 1974, Städt. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

1975

Surrealität - Bildrealität 1924 - 1974, Städt. Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

1976

Petersburg Press London 1968-1976, Galerie de France, Paris, France

The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800 – 1950, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Acquisition Priorities. Aspects of Postwar Painting in America. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

AMERICA AMERICA, Galerie Beyeler, Basel Switzerland

1977

20th Century American Art from Friend’s Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Segno / Gesto / Materia, Agenzia D’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

Paris - New York, 1908-1968, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Ostschweizer Privatbesitz, Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland

Memorial exhibition: Josef Albers, Leonid, Mark Tobey, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

Extraordinary Men, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

American Art in Belgium, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Kunst aus USA nach 1950. AMERIKANER, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

American Drawings 1927 – 1977, Minnesota Museum of Art

1978

Artists and Writers, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Northwest Traditions, Seattle Art Museum

Amerikaner - Kunst aus den USA nach 1950, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

2 Jahrzehnte amerikanische Malerei 1920-1940, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

American Art 1934-1956. Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis Tennessee; Mississippi Museum of Art

Jackson Mississippi 1978

Mark Tobey / Hans Burkhardt, Laguna Beach Museum of Art

1980

Schrift im Bild, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

Zeichen des Glaubens - Geist der Avantgarde, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany

American Watercolors from the Collection of George Hopper Fitch, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

1981

Mark Tobey, Jean Fautrier, Antoni Tàpies, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

Peintres du silence, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland

Northwest Visionaries - Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, Leo Kenney, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Art américaine. Œuvres des collections du Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1985

Painting as landscape: Views of American Modernism 1920-1984, Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena; Parrish Art Museum on Southampton, New York

Gesichter und Figuren, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

27 Ways to look at American Drawing, Rice Museum, Houston
Cinquants ans de dessins américains 1930 - 1980, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Amerikanische Zeichnungen 1930 - 1980, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

1986

Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection, The Oakland Museum, CA

1987

Seattle Style, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne; Musée Hyacinthe-Rigaud de Perpignan; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau; Musée Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec d’Albi; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Dunkerque, France

Abstract Expressionism. The Critical Developments, Albrigth Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

1988

Sammlung T., Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

XIX and XX Century Master Drawings and Watercolors, Acquavella Galleries, New York

American Abstract Drawings 1930 – 1987, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

1989

Colleción Beyeler, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Wege zur Abstraktion / Exploring Abstraction, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

Abstract Expressionism. Other Dimensions, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago; Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

1990

GegenwartEwigkeit. Spuren des Transzendenten in der Kunst unserer Zeit,

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Nouvel Espace, Galerie Didier Fettweis, Spa, Belgium

Abstract Expressionism. Other Dimensions, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York

Watercolors from the Abstract Expressionist Era, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York

1990/91

Drawn in America 1898-1945, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1991

Art of the Forties. The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1950-1965 Abstraction on Paper, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York

1992

Kunst als Grenzbeschreitung - John Cage und die Moderne, Neue Pinakothek München, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Germany

Auf Papier, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

1992/93

Die großen Sammlungen 1 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Von Cézanne bis Pollock, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

Les Nymphéas avant et après, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France

1993

Abstract Expressionism - Works on Paper. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Wege der Moderne - Die Sammlung Beyeler, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany

Roy R. Neuberger: Patron of the Arts, Neuberger Museum of Art State University of New York

1993/94

Bissier, Klee, Tobey, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

1994

Dream of the Absolute - From Malevich to Ryman, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

Morris Graves. Mark Tobey, Schmidt Bingham Galleries, New York

1995

Wer hat Angst vor Rot ..?, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

Augenschein und Inbegriff - Wandlungen der gegenstandsfreien Kunst, Galerie Döbele, Stuttgart, Germany

The Exhibition of Swiss Private Collections, Hokkaido Museum of Art, Sapporo; Huis ten Bosch Museum of Art and Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto; Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

19th and 20th Century Paintings and Drawings, Marc de Montebello Fine Arts Inc., New York

1996

Signs & Symbols, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York

1997

Affinities with the East, Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Michel Tapié: Un art autre. Torino, Osaka, Parigi, New York. Turin and Toulouse

1998

Three Americans, Tobey - Francis - Jenkins, Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland

Original Scale, Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York

Elements of the Natural 1950-1992, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1999/2000

Kunstwelten im Dialog - Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum

2000

Zen und die westliche Kunst, Museum Bochum, Germany

Native American Influences on 1930s & 1940s Modernists, David Findlay Jr. Fine Art,

New York

Cross-Currents in Modern Art, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York

America Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties, Spanierman Gallery, New York

2001

Recent Acquisitions 1950.1975, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia USA

La espiritualidad del vacío / The spirituality of the void, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain

Asian Influences I, Kurt Lidtke Galleries, Seattle

Hue, Schmidt Bingham Galleries, New York

Cold War Modern: The Domesticated Avant-Garde, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, Mass.

Master drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art, The Frick Collection, New York

Collection 1, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Patrick Heron: Garden Paintings, incl.Tobey, Monet, Bonnard, Picasso etc, Tate St. Ives, Great Britain

1950 – 1965 Abstraction on Paper, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York

The Stamps of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints, Worcester Art Museum, Mass.

2001/02

Da Kandinsky a Pollock. La vertigine della non-forma, Museo Cantonale d'Arte Lugano, Switzerland

Claude Monet and Modernism, Hypo-Kunsthalle, München

2002

Contemporaries of A. Szenes and V. da Silva in the Berardo Collection, Fundaçáo Arpad Szenes - Viera da Silva, Portugal

Klänge des Inneren Auges - Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, John Cage, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

Sounds of the Inner Eye - Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, John Cage, The Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma

Mark Tobey and Sam Francis - Drawings and Monoprints, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica

Durch 150 Jahre in Schwarz/Weiss, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

Moderne und Stammeskunst, Galerie Berndt, Cologne, Germany

Claude Monet ... up to digital impressionism, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel

2003

Abstract works on paper, autour de Mark Tobey, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France

Northwest Mythologies - The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson, Tacoma Art Museum

Two Friends - Lyonel Feininger, Mark Tobey, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York

Unaussprechlich schön - Das mystische Paradies in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany

La collection Jean Planque, Salle St. Jean, Hotel de Ville, Paris, France

2003/04

The Edge of Tomorrow - Tobey, Price and Graves from the 1940’s, Museum of Art, University of Oregon; San José Museum of Art

El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain

Abstract Experessionism, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran

2004

An American Odyssey, 1950-1980 - Debating Modernism, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Centro de Arte de Salamanca; Kiosco Alfonso, La Coruna, Spain

Onbegrensd - Unbegrenzt, curated by H. Hachmeister, Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen, Belgium

Chine - Occident ou l'aventure du signe. Michaux, Tobey, Degottex, Zao Wou-Ki, Shan Sa, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France

Emily Carr: Art, Place, Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery

Sam Francis and his contemporaries, Broadbent Gallery, London

Surface Tensions: a Tate partnership, Norwich Castle, Norfolk, Great Britain

Side by side: Marvin Lazarus and the Neuberger, The Neuberger Museum of Art, New York

2004/05

An American Odyssey, 1954-1980 - Debating Modernism, QCC Art Gallery, The City University of New York

Shanghai Modern, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany

Arti e Architettura: 1900-2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genua, Italy
2005

Drawing from the Modern, 1945-1975, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Shanghai Modern, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel Germany
50 Yeatrs documenta 1955-2005, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Scriptorale und Gestische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany

Peintures et Sculptures, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne Switzerland

Little Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland FL
2006
Plane / Figure, Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Verrückte Liebe - Von Dali bis Bacon, BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
Inner Worlds Outside, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Great Britain; Irish Museum of Art, Dublin; Fundacion la Caixa, Madrid

Collection 1, National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka Japan

An American Collection, John H. Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

2006/07
La tentation de l'Orient, Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris, France

Informel – eine Weltsprache, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau, Germany

The Modern West American Landscapes 1890 – 1950, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

and Los Angeles County Museum of Art

2007

William C.Seitz: Defending the Modern, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Mark Tobey–Julius Bissier, Galerie Carzaniga, Basel, Switzerland

Contemporary, Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

Le Corps et son Double, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris France

The Passionate Gesture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco

Jan Bouman Collection, Groninger Museum, Groningen Netherlands

Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism, Hollis Taggert Galleries, New York

American Modernists, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY

Collezione La Gaia, Centro Sperimentale, Caraglio, Italy

2007/08

From Riot to Structure – Writing in Informel Art, Gustav Lübcke-Museum, Hamm, Germany

Guests from the Museum Folkwang Essen, Josef Albers-Museum Bottrop Germany

2008

Notation – Kalkül und Form in den Künsten, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

Surreale Welten – Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Druckstelle. Graphik von Chillida bis Uecker, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany

2009

The Artist Traveller, Museo d’Arte, Ravenna, Italy

Notation – Kalkül und Form in den Künsten, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Roundhouse of International Spirits:Arp, Benazzi, Bissier, Nicholson, Richter, Tobey, Valenti in the Ticino, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Great Britain                                                                                     The power of place, Museo comunale d’arte moderna, Ascona; Pinacoteca Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland

Themes and Variations, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Italy

Abstracta, Galleria Torbandena, Trieste Italy

Synchronies: Undercurrents in Postwar European and American Abstraction, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco

Italo Valenti, Jean Arp, Julius Bissier, Mark Tobey, Galerie Une, Auvernier-Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Masterpieces of the Modern. The Collection of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Kunst- und Ausstellungs-Halle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany;

Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento and Rovereto, Italy

Passions partagées, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland

Divine Abstractions: Spiritual Expressions in Art, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, USA

2009/10

The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri

Vision into Reality: The Birth of the Collection, Art Gallery of Victoria

2010

The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Modern Times, Museum Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge ; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, Sussex, Great Britain

Monet and Abstraction, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ; Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris

Le grand geste! Informel und Abstrakter Expressionismus 1946-1964, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf Germany

Crossover, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster Germany

Black & White, Jason McCoy, New York

From a Collection of Abstract Works on Paper, Cheim & Read, New York

Vom Esprit der Gesten, Hans Hartung, das Informel und die Folgen, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin

A Concise History of Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum

Amerikanische Graphik seit 1960, Aus der Graphischen Sammlung der ETH Zürich, Kunsthaus Grenchen, Switzerland

Hartung, Mathieu, Tobey. Tre artisti del primo informale, Cavana Arte Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy

Works on Paper, Elrick-Mansley Fine Art Inc., New York

2010/11

New Visions : Contemporary masterworks from the Bank of America Collection, Mint Museum Charlotte, North Carolina USA

Abstract Expressionist New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2011

Carlfriedrich Claus – Gschrieben in Nachtmeer.Including works of Tobey, Opalka, Tàpies etc, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland

Vor allem Farbe / Colour first, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster Germany

Christopher Lehmpfuhl / Mark Tobey, Galerie Carzaniga, Basel

The art of writing – Bilder werden geschrieben, Wiesbaden, Germany

2011/12

Farbe im Fluss, Neues Museum Weserburg

2012

André Masson, Mark Tobey – Calligraphic works, Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster Germany

Una finestra sulmondo. Da Dürer a Mondrian, Museo Cantonale d’Arte e Museo d’Arte, Lugano

John Cage und …, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Hans Hartung, Mark Tobey, Galerie Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe

Signs and Symbols, Whitney Museum, New York

John Cage und …, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

Envisioning modernism: The Janice and Henry Lazarof Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles USA

2013

Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Una finestra sulmondo. Da Dürer a Mondrian, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland

Contemporary Art and Calligraphy – At the Nexus of Painting and Writing, Seoul Calligraphy Museum. Seoul Arts Center

Approaching Infinity, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento California

2013/114

Ways to Asia, Treasures from China, Thailand, Cambodia – and the resonances of Western Modern Art , Hachmeister Galerie, Muenster, Germany

In progress, Works from the MUMOK collection, MUMOK Vienna, Austria

Pollock e gli Irascibili. La scuola di New York, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage's 4'33”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2014

Taking a line for a walk, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Switzerland

Mark Tobey, Julius Bissier,  Galerie Carzaniga, Basel Switzerland

Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical, Seattle Art Museum

Mark Tobey / Teng Baiye: Seattle / Shanghai, Frye Art Museum, Seattle

Contemplating East Asia: Mark Tobey and Sam Francis, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina

2015

Klassische Moderne & Zeitgenössische Meister, Galerie Michael Blaszczyk, Bad Homburg, Germany

Color(less), Van Doren Waxter, New York

2016

L'homme des deux rives. Zao Wou-Ki collectionneur, Musée de l'Hospice Saint-Roche, Issoudun France

Question de peinture – Des années 40 à nos jours, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris

Surreal/Unreal, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

Abstraction from Nature, Connaught Brown, London

Brève histoire des centres d'arts, Contemporary Art Center of the Castle of Tanlay, France

Brève histoire des centres d'arts, Contemporary Art Center of the Castle of Tanlay, France

Abstract Expressionism, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2016/17

Mark Tobey, Lenz Klotz. Galerie Pesko, Lenzerheide, Switzerland

Postwar: Kunst zwischen Pazifik und Atlantik, 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich Germany

2017

10 American Artists: After Paul Klee, Paul Klee Zentrum Bern, Switzerland

When Modern was Contemporary, Albuquerque Museum

2018

10 American Artists: After Paul Klee, Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

Tobey – Bieberstein, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris

Nymphéas. L'abstraction américaine et le dernier Monet, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

Lenz Klotz, Mark Tobey, Galerie Carzaniga, Basel

2019

A festival for the eyes – a private collection: Tobey, Le Corbusier, Picasso, Cragg, Haese, Dierickx, Khmer sculptures, a.o., Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso, Münster Germany