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Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting by Alton S. Tobey (1914 - 2005). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Impressive modernist painting by an important and historical artist.
The following is written and submitted by Joseph Dolice, Exhibition Director of the New Rochelle Council on the Arts. This information accompanied the exhibition, "Alton Tobey," of the New Rochelle Council on the Arts October 22 to November 14, 2003.
Millions of Americans have seen reproductions of the art of Alton Tobey, one of the most famous of today's living illustrators -- in national magazines such as Life, Reader's Digest and American Artist; and in public murals such as at The Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City; and in Westchester where his Roots of Westchester mural is installed at the White Plains County Courthouse. Few people, however, had had the opportunity to see almost three dozen of his original paintings, including many of his portraits of famous people, at any single time or place before in history.
From October 22nd through November 14th, 2003 The New Rochelle Council on The Arts, a major cultural resource for the citizens of New Rochelle and the residents of the surrounding Westchester community will present a special one-man exhibition of thirty-three of Alton Tobey's original paintings, many of which have never been publicly shown before. The show will be held in the 3000 square foot Lumen Winter Gallery in the lobby of The New Rochelle Library, the site of many major exhibitions in the past by the NRCA, such as its show of original artwork of Norman Rockwell and of Frederic Remington. Both of these artists also achieved fame mainly as illustrative painters, and had ties to the community.
Alton Tobey was born in Middletown, Connecticut and received his BFA and MFA at the Yale School of Fine Arts and later taught there for four years. He has also taught at the City College of New York and has been juror for many prestigious art competitions. His work is in over 30 museums and in important government, corporate and private art collections. He has had over 50 one-man exhibitions. His work has been published in over a dozen national magazines and books, and he has over three dozen historic murals to his credit.
Education:
Yale School of Fine Arts, B.F.A. and M.F.A.
Taught at:
Yale School of Fine Arts; City College, New York City; 92nd St. YM-YWHA, New York City
Affiliations:
Hudson River Contemporary Artists - President Emeritus; National Society of Mural Painters - President Emeritus; Artists Equity of New York - President Emeritus;
Mamaroneck Artists Guild - President Emeritus; International Arts Association - Past Vice-President
Memberships:
Abraxis; League of Present Day Artists; Fine Arts Federation; American Society of Contemporary Artists; Metropolitan Arts Association
Awards:
PWA Mural Award, 1939; Westchester Society Merit Award; Edwin Abby Mural Award, 1965; Grumbacher Awards, 1982, 1985; Westchester Council for the Arts, 1987; Lindner Memorial Award, 1992
Murals:
Tazewell Museum; Tazewell, VA; 16 Chief Justices; St. Paul, MN; Signing of the Constitution; St. Paul, MN; Roots of Thomasville; Thomasville, GA; Intrepid Sea, Air, Space; New York, NY; Smithsonian Museum (2); Washington, DC; California Bank, Rockefeller Center; NYC; American Bureau of Shipping; NYC; Council on Fitness; Washington, DC; U.S. Post Office; East Hartford, CT; MacArthur Memorial, (6); Norfolk, VA; Falstaff Mural; St. Louis, MO; Three Murals for Saudi Arabia; Jidda, SA; History of Transportation; Hartford, CT; Project 400 (14 Murals); Chadds Ford, PA; Evyan Perfumes/Cheseborough; NYC; Campbell Avenue Library; E. Hartford, CT; Eastchester Town Hall; Eastchester, NY; Liebowitz Family (2); New York, NY; Roots of Westchester County; WhitePlains, NY
Publications where featured:
Life Magazine; Iconagraphy of Stradivari; American Artist; Readers' Digest; Spotlight; Epic of Man - Life; The Plate Collection Magazine; Birds of Tikai - Museum of Natural History; Men and Power - Western Publishing; The Golden Book of American History (in 12 volumes - 300 paintings by Tobey)
August 1, 1961 in Plate Collector magazine (with Tobey featured on the cover): "Tobey Brings Murals to Plates" by Susan Elliott:
Winter, 2007 (Vol. 5 Number 20) in Illustration magazine: "The Curvilinear Career of Alton S. Tobey" by John Matuszak.
Also in numerous newspaper articles in The New York Times, USA Today, Gannett newspapers, and others.
Corporate collections:
ABC TV; New York, NY; Charles Pfizer Co.; New York, NY; Readers' Digest; Pleasantville, NY; Ciba-Geigy; Ardsley NY; American Cyanamid; Bound Brook, NJ; General Foods Corp.; White Plains, NY; Evyan Perfumes; New York, NY
Portraits:
Albert Einstein; Pope John Paul II; Ronald Reagan; Charles Pfizer; Golda Meir; Alexander Calder; Cardinal Cooke; Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins; Robert Merrill;
E. Ronald Harriman; Robert Frost; Douglas MacArthur; Alfred DelBello; Robert Merrill; John L. Lewis; Charles Picker; John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy
Government & other projects:
Newberger Museum; Purchase, NY; Dept. of Commerce; Washington, DC; Amer. Machine/Foundry; White Plains, NY; President's Council on Fitness; Wash., DC;
Yonkers Professional Hospital; Yonkers, NY; Iona College; New Rochelle, NY;
NYU Law Library; New York, NY; Jewish Community Center; White Plains, NY;
Instituto Norteamericano del Arte; Mexico; American Center; Stockholm, Sweden;
Amer. Bureau of Shipping; New York, NY; The National Academy; New York, NY; St. Patrick's Cathedral; New York, NY; St. Francis Hospital; Hartford, CT;
Elmira College; Elmira, NY; Hofstra University; Long Island, NY; Murray Av. School; Larchmont, NY; Mercy College; Dobbs Ferry, NY
Limited editions:
Royal Doulton Plates; London, England; Lucien Picard; New York, NY; Scafa Tournabene; West Nyack, NY; Numa, Ltd.; Akron, OH
International collections:
Copenhagen, Denmark; Minori, Italy; Jerusalem, Israel; Lima, Peru; LaRochelle, France; Stockholm, Sweden; Athens, Greece; Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Guatemala City, Guatemala; Mexico City, Mexico; Tepotzian, Mexico
Solo Shows:
American Center; Stockholm, Sweden
Alliance Galleria; Copenhagen, Denmark
Mamaroneck Artists' Guild; Larchmont, NY
Silvermine Artists Guild; New Canaan, CT
Instituto Mexicano Norteamericano; Mexico
Galleria Satellite; Mexico City, Mexico
Casa de Aquarella, Mexico City, Mexico
Jewish Center; New Haven, CT
Alice Tully Hall; Lincoln Center, NYC
Riverside Museum; New York, NY
Westchester Art Society; White Plains, NY
Bloomingdales; White Plains, NY
Jalapa Festival, 1993
Art on Tour; 2-year traveling show
Group shows:
University of Delaware; Newark, DE
University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA
Trinity College; Hartford, CT
Yale School of Fine Arts; New Haven, CT
Sara Lawrence College; Bronxville, NY
Bennington College; Bennington, VT
University of Maine; Orono, ME
Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center; NYC
Lever Brothers; New York, NY
Broome Street Gallery; New York, NY
Artists Equity Gallery; New York, NY
Mamaroneck Artists Guild; Mamaroneck, NY
Hudson River Museum; Yonkers, NY
Westchester Art Society; White Plains, NY
Silvermine Guild; New Canaan, CT
White Plains Library; White Plains, NY
Larchmont Library; Larchmont, NY
Radison Hotel; Mexico City, Mexico
Hammond Museum; North Salem, NY
Union Carbide; New York, NY
Mitsikushi; Tokyo, Japan
National Art Gallery; New York, NY
Gloucester, MA
Manchester, VT
Newport, RI
Credits:
Inca Skull Surgery Mural in The Smithsonian Torch, Washington DC; No. 14, March, 1966.
The Roots of Westchester Mural in The New York Times, Westchester Journal; June 1, 1984.
Retirement Unthinkable in Suburban Newspapers; December 11, 199_.
Biography of Thomasville Mural in The New York Times, Westchester Weekly; Sunday, July 25, 1993.
East Hartford Mural article by Kevin Maywood in The Journal Inquirer n/d.
Tobey's PWA Work in The Aircraft Journal, September 1942.
History of Ships Mural article by Kathy Beals.
Cultural Mutilation Mural article in Arts In Review.
Studio for Tobey in The Ursuline Review, October, 1984.
Roots of Westchester Mural, The New York Times, Westchester Weekly, May 5, 1985.
Roots of Westchester Mural article by Ian T. Macauley; The New York Times, n/d
People on the Move article in Westchester Spotlight January 1983.
Commentary by Raymond E. Tubbs, restorer of the Hartford Mural - 3 pages September, 1977.
Suburban People article in Gannett Suburban Newspapers, July 13, 1993.
Alton Tobey: The Artist by Eve Medoff in American Artist magazine, May, 1976.
Malaren Tobey article by Paul Raae in Berlingske, May 1974.
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