Virginia Barnett papers relating to Mark Tobey

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Virginia Barnett papers relating to Mark Tobey

ca. 1950-1979

Material collected by Barnett regarding Mark Tobey including: photographs of Tobey with friends Takazaki and Horiuci, ca. 1950, Tobey's Seattle, Washington studio taken after his death, summer 1976, Tobey with his attorney Arthur Barnett, Tobey's Basel, Switzerland home, and Tobey's funeral; copies made from 16 mm microfilm of two Tobey journals, 1958; and Barnett's handwritten descriptions of the photographs and journals, 1979.

17 items (on partial microfilm reel)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6737809

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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...

Barnett, Virginia Bunker, 1918-1999

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Mariam Virginia Bunker was born in 1918 to Eugene F. Bunker, Jr., a leading attorney in Bozeman Montana and Mariam Cooper Bunker, the only child of prominent Bozeman Montana pioneer Walter Cooper. Her sister Elizabeth Frances Bunker was born in 1920 and her brother Eugene F. Bunker, Jr. was born in 1928. Virginia was raised in Bozeman and married Edmund S. Barnett, moving to Lafayette, California where he was an attorney. She died in March of 1999 at the age of 80. From the guide to ...