Photographs and letters relating to Mark Tobey murals

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Photographs and letters relating to Mark Tobey murals

circa 1933-1988

The photographs and letters relating to Mark Tobey murals consist of nine photographs (ca. 1933) of murals of dancers by Mark Tobey at the Dartington Hall dance center in Devonshire, England; one photograph each of Mark Tobey and dancer Paula Morel; and two letters (1988) from Mary Bride Nicholson, the archivist at Dartington Hall, and donor Michael Straight discussing the murals.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6737800

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Tobey, Mark

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Painter; Abstract Expressionist. Also worked as fashion illustrator, portrait painter. Born in Wisconsin, December 11, 1892. Died 1976. Worked in Chicago, Seattle, Basel, Switzerland; New York, N.Y., Dartington Hall, Devonshire, England, and Paris. Convert to Baha'i religion. From the description of Mark Tobey papers, [ca. 1920]-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78566820 Tobey was a painter; Seattle, Wash. Corle was at one time a New York City stage actress and wife of no...

Straight, Michael Whitney.

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Art administrator, art collector; Washington, D.C. From the description of Michael Whitney Straight interview, [ca. 1971]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190485 The donor, Michael Straight, grew up at Dartington Hall, Devonshire, England, an experimental community founded by his mother, Dorothy Whitney Straight and her second husband Leonard K. Elmhirst. The community included a progressive coeducational boarding school and a cluster of art centers. In the early 1930s, St...

Dartington Hall School (Totnes, England)

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Morel, Paula.

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