Alton S. Tobey celebrated his 90th birthday Saturday, November 6, 2004 with over 150 family members, friends and patrons of the arts at the Sarah Neuman Center in Mamaroneck, New York. The occasion also marked the debut of this website, an ongoing project which is continually under development as a comprehensive overview of the life and work of a great 20th Century artist.

             This site currently contains images of more than 300 paintings from Tobey's life works, includng his murals for the Smithsonian Institution, the MacArthur Memorial and Roots of Westchester for his home community of Westchester County, New York. More than 100 of his historical paintings for LIFE, the Golden Books series and other publications, a very detailed illustrated biography, information about his art techniques, his work as an educator, and his modern Curvilinear and Fragments paintings are all on these pages.

 

PHOTOS  FROM  THE  PARTY
(Click on any of the three photos below to see them in greater detail.)

ABOVE LEFT: At the party November 6th, Tobey speaks with his good friend and playwright Paul Firestone and another guest. CENTER: Man with the white beard is an actor dressed as Leonardo DaVinci, who presented Alton with a special surprise birthday gift: a copy of the Mona Lisa. RIGHT: Tobey with his son David, who is also a painter, and a professional violinist.

            Judith Tobey, seen above left with guests attending the party for her father. Judy directed the research and other work that went into her father's new website from her home in Chicago; by working with archivists, curators and website authors in the New York area via the internet.

 

            ABOVE LEFT: Dr. Fred Tilden examines a scrapbook of hundreds of news clippings about Alton's work covering over 50 years of his career as an artist, which was assembled for the event; while Joe Lobrano, past president of Artist's Equity of New York signs a guest book. Steven Spencer, shipping entrepreneur and Mitch Golub, president of cars.com are seen talking in the background.

            ABOVE RIGHT: a visitor looks over one of the 20-page illustrated souvenir booklets on the artist's biography that all guests were given to take home as mementos of the event. The booklet is a printed version of the LIFE & WORKS section of this website. Anyone desiring a copy of the booklet are invited to contact the Tobey Collection Curator.

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