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