Mark Tobey
Five A.M.
1952
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Mark Tobey
Five A.M.
1952
Physical Qualities
Tempera on black-faced paperboard, Unframed: 39 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (100.3 x 74.9 cm) Framed: 48 x 38 in. (121.9 x 96.5 cm)
Credit Line
Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection
Object Number
1960.3
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1960, and on loan, 1955-1960; from Edward Joseph Gallagher, Jr., Baltimore
Arts Festival, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland (April 25, 1956 - May 9, 1956)
"American Vanguard," Salzburg, var. museums in Yugoslavia, London, Darmstadt (1961-1962)
"The City in American Painting," Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania (January 20, 1973 - March 4, 1973)
Addison Gallery of American Art - Phillips Academy, "Mark Tobey (1890-1976): A Retrospective", Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Italy, May 27, 2017 - November 27, 2017, Addison Gallery of American Art- Phllips Academy, January 20, 2018 - July 23, 2018.
"American Vanguard," Salzburg, var. museums in Yugoslavia, London, Darmstadt (1961-1962)
"The City in American Painting," Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania (January 20, 1973 - March 4, 1973)
Addison Gallery of American Art - Phillips Academy, "Mark Tobey (1890-1976): A Retrospective", Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Italy, May 27, 2017 - November 27, 2017, Addison Gallery of American Art- Phllips Academy, January 20, 2018 - July 23, 2018.
"A Picture Book," Baltimore Museum of Art 1955, repr. p. 85
BMA News, April 1956, p. 7; repr. p. 51; listed p. 10
BMA News, Winter 1960, "Tobey and Rothko" by Georgine Oeri; repr. p. 4
"Object of the Week," Magazine Section, The Sun, Baltimore repr. Oct. 23, 1960
Eloise Spaeth, "American Art Museums & Galleries: An Introduction to Looking, Harper & Brothers," New York, 1960, p. 51; repr. p. 49
Art Quarterly, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, Summer 1960, p. 190
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection. [Baltimore, MD]: Baltimore Museum of Art, [1964], page 19
Balken, Debra Bricker. "Mark Tobey: Threading Light." New York: Skira Rizzoli; Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2017.
Gumpert, Lynn and Debra Bricker Balken, eds. "Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962." New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2022
Inscribed: Signed and dated in the lower right cornera, "Tobey," "53"