Diebenkorn. Philip Guston was also 'west coast' and not embraced until he moved to NY in the 1950s. But perhaps it's finally a matter of sensibility and temperament rather than regional location. As Bärmann suggests, Tobey certainly didn't fit the macho profile favoured by the propaganda machine of the 1950s. But you'd think there would have been plenty of critics and historians ready to correct the record since then, marked by major retrospectives. More recently I'm surprised that Marden's beautiful calligraphic paintings aren't contextualised with Tobey's work. Perhaps they have been, but I've missed it. Meanwhile, congratulations again on the book, and thanks for getting it to me.
Tim Bass
Name: Christy A. Vezolles, Phoenix and Las Vegas E-Mail:
Danke schön! Thank you so much for the information regarding the lithograph by Mark Tobey. I have great respect and appreciation for the work you and the Committee are doing, creating a catalog raisonne of his work.
Respectfully, Christy A. Vezolles
Name: Ana Garcia Bouso, Madrid E-Mail:
"Dear Sirs: First of all, let me congratulate you on your fantastic Tobey's web page. This email's purpose is to ask you for help. My mother is an expresionist painter and she is very fond of Mark Tobey's works since she saw an exhibition of his paintings in the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. ..."
