Mark Tobey: Threading Light

Exhibition at the Peggy Gugghenheim Collection, Venice, 6 May - 10 September 2017

One of the foremost American artists to emerge from the 1940s, a decade that saw the rise of Abstract Expressionism, Mark Tobey (1890-1976) is now recognized as a vanguard figure whose work anticipated the formal innovations of New York School artists such as Jackson Pollock.

Surveying the artist's career with works ranging from the 1920s to 1970, this exhibition catlaogue reveals the extraordinarily nuanced yet radical beauty of Tobey's painting, affirming his significant role in the development of abstraction.