Mark Tobey

Later years

The artist settled in Basel Switzerland in 1960 and in September took part in Vienna’s Congress of the International Association of the Visual Arts on the topic “The East - Occident”. S. When Tobey returned to Seattle in 1927 he shared a studio in the ballroom of a house near the Cornish School (with which he was intermittently associated) with the teenaged artist Robert Bruce Inverarity who was 20 years Tobey's junior.

Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of the Northwest. Along with Guy Anderson Kenneth Callahan Morris Graves and William Cumming Tobey was a founder of the Northwest School. Senior in age and experience he had a strong influence on the others; friend and mentor Tobey shared their interest in philosophy and Eastern religions.