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Retrospective Exhibition of Alton Tobey Original Artwork

A retrospective exhibition of original paintings by artist Alton S. Tobey (1914-2005) will be available for loan at no cost to museums and art groups in 2006. The exhibition, which is being organized by the New Rochelle Council on The Arts, will contain over 50 paintings from all periods of Tobey's career, which spanned over six decades.

(PRWEB) August 28, 2005 -- The New Rochelle Council on The Arts, one of Westchester County New York's most active arts organizations is assembling a traveling retrospective exhibition of the paintings of Alton S. Tobey (1914-2005) that will be available to travel in 2006. Mr. Tobey, who died this past January, was an artist whose works are in the Smithsonian Institution and many other museums and important collections nationally. He was best known as a historical painter and muralist, and his works were published extensively in LIFE and other national magazines and in many books. The exhibition will also contain many of his non-representational modern paintings that have never been exhibited before. Tobey's website at www.altontobey.org contains his biography and images of hundreds of these paintings.

The exhibition, which will consist of over 50 of his best and most important paintings from the 1930's through the 1980's in the collection of his estate, will be ready to travel around mid-2006. There will be no charge for loan of the exhibition to museums, art organizations and educational institutions who may have a use for it as a cultural resource. Individuals affiliated with such organizations who feel that they may be interested in hosting this exhibition, are urged to send an email with their postal address to the curator of the exhibition -- curator@altontobey.org -- as soon as possible to receive an application to borrow the exhibition when it becomes available.

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The Last Judgment
This painting by Alton S. Tobey represents a final stage in a number of evolutions of his Curvilinear style of paintings, one of a dozen of which will be included in his retrospective exhibition. In this painting he shows an image of his own realistic head emerging from a labyrinth of abstract images created from an alphabet of curved forms based upon Einsteinian theory.

Achilles
For over four decades, Alton Tobey worked on over a thousand paintings which he called "Curvilinears", a style he developed based upon his favorite scientist, Albert Einstein's theories. A number of these modernist paintings, which are in complete contrast to the academic representationalist style in his illustrations for books and magazines, are part of the traveling retrospective exhibition of his paintings that is being created and which will be available to travel in 2006.

Fragment - albert Schweitzer
Combining his skills as a portrait artist with his meticulous attention to detail, Tobey created a series of paintings called "Fragments", which were parts of human anatomy enlarged on canvases such as this one, which measures 6 by 4 feet. Over a dozen of these "Fragments" paintings are included in a retrospective traveling exhibition of his work that is currently being created by The New Rochelle Council on The Arts and that will be available to museums and arts organizations in 2006.

Peruvian Flutists
In addition to being a historical painter, Tobey did much work in Latin America, using local subjects for his paintings. This one, which measures 5 x 6 feet, is one of a number of his modern works that will be included in the retrospective traveling exhibition of his work that will be available for loan to museums and other cultural organizations in 2006.

The Apollo 11 Mission
Over 50,000 prints of this painting by Alton S. Tobey were circulated to schools throughout the country after the sucessful completion of the Apollo 11 Mission. This original painting, along with more than 50 others are part of a retrospective exhibition of works by Tobey that will be available for loan to museums and arts organizations starting in 2006.

Washington's Inauguration
This painting for Golden Books' "History of the United States" was one of over 300 that Alton Tobey created for the 24-volume series published in 1963. It is one of over 50 paintings that are included in a major retrospective exhibition of his work that will be available for loan in 2006.

Bloody Sunday
This oil painting by Alton S. Tobey, for the cover of the January 1957 issue of LIFE magazine, is one of over fifty original paintings that are part of a retrospective exhibition of his work that will be available to museums and art organizations in 2006. It shows the massacre by Russian Cossacks of citizens of St. Petersburg in front of the Narva Gate, at the beginning of the Russian Revolution.

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