Picnic

Artist Mark Tobey American, 1890–1976

Date1956

MediumTempera on paper

Dimensions24 x 36 1/4 in. (61 x 92.1 cm)
Frame: 30 1/8 x 41 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (76.5 x 106 x 3.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.73.7.2

On View

Not on view

Published References"Recent Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, no. 3 (March 1974), cat. no. 7, illus. (b-w) 21.

On View 9 (1975), 75.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," June 16-August 18, 1974.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "American Works on Paper," July 12-October 16, 1983.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Changing Selections Gallery, "American Abstraction," November 14-June 28, 1990.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Contemplating East Asia: Mark Tobey and Sam Francis,” June 20–August 31, 2014.
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