Mark Tobey

Battle of the Lights

1956

Large abstract painting with layered gray scratches and scattered bright colored marks across the canvas.
Large abstract painting with layered gray scratches and scattered bright colored marks across the canvas.

Mark Tobey, Battle of the Lights, 1956. Opaque watercolor on paper mounted on board, sheet: 44 × 35 3/8 in. (111.8 × 89.9 cm) Mount (board): 44 × 35 1/2 × 1/8 in. (111.8 × 90.2 × 0.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Lydia Winston Malbin in honor of Walter Fillin 89.34. © Estate of Mark Tobey / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1956

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper mounted on board

Dimensions
Sheet: 44 × 35 3/8 in. (111.8 × 89.9 cm) Mount (board): 44 × 35 1/2 × 1/8 in. (111.8 × 90.2 × 0.3 cm)

Accession number
89.34

Credit line
Gift of Lydia Winston Malbin in honor of Walter Fillin

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Mark Tobey / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
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