Mark Tansey

[American Painter, born in 1949]

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[Tansey was] destined to absorb art history in the same way that Michelangelo - who suckled marble dust from his wet nurse, who was a stonemason's wife - was destined to sculpt.

- a slightly over-the-top assessment from Thomas Sokolowski, in Art News (Summer 1994)

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Original works by Mark Tansey available for purchase at art galleries worldwide

Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Broad Art Foundation

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Mark Tansey in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

Mark Tansey at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's database

Mark Tansey at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Pictures from Image Archives:

Mark Tansey in the Artchive

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Derrida Queries de Man

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)

Other Web Sites:

Infobloom
Untitled, 1988

Phil Grey's Home Page
The Innocent Eye Test

UBS Financial Services Art Collection

Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Triumph of the New York School (with artists identified)

Articles:

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Resource Library Magazine
Action Painting II, 1984

Resource Library Magazine
Chess Game, 1982

Resource Library Magazine
Homage to Frank Lloyd Wright, 1984

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