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December 2004
In December 2004 the committee nominated a new corresponding member: author and collector Castor Seibel from Paris. Mr. Seibel, an internationally reknown expert of the work of Fautrier, Braque and Picasso, is familiar with Tobey's work since the early 1960ies, wrote several texts about Tobey (see for example Mark Tobey – Approches réitérées in the legendary L'Ire Des Vents No 13-14, 1986)
Gabriele Bonomo, Milan, Italy, who curated a book about John Cage in 1998 is now preparing a book about Tobey and music. |
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Wesley C. Wehr, corresponding member of the CMT, died two days short of his 75th birthday in April. Wesley C. Wehr, a painter, author and award-winning paleobotanist known for nurturing other creative artists, is dead at age 74. "He was a treasure," said Lisa Corrin, curator of modern art at the Seattle Art Museum. "He made the history of modern art in the Northwest corne alive." A native of Stanwood, Wehr studied music theory at the University of Washington and was barely out of his teens when he began giving low-cost piano lessons to Mark Tobey, who introduced him to other painters in the "Northwest Mystics" circle. In the 1970s, Wehr's interest in paleobotany led him to volunteer at the university's Burke Museum, which credits him with developing a 50-million-year-old buried lake bed in northcentral Washington as the most productive source of plant fossils in North America. Last year Wehr won the Harrell L. Strimple Award from the Paleontological Society. His first book, "The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians and the Wicked Witch of the West," was published by the University of Washington Press in 2000.
A second, "The Accidental Collector: Art, Fossils, Friendships," by the same publisher, is available from May 2004 on.
Wesley Wehr also published texts about Tobey in the exceptionel catalogue of Tobey's great retrospective in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid 1997 (curated by our members Matthias Bärmann and Kosme de Barañano) and the catalogue Klänge des Inneren Auges - Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, John Cage, Kunsthalle Bremen 2002 / Sounds of the Inner Eye - John |
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