Mark Tobey (Centerville 1890-1976 Bâle)

Mark Tobey made an initial visit in 1930 to Dartington Hall, the progressive school founded by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst in Devon. Coming from the Cornish School in Seattle, he returned a year later to join the international group of artists on the estate. His weekly art classes were attended by everyone on the estate who wished to draw and paint. Tobey founded, amongst other things, a study circle devoted to the Bahá'í faith to which he introduced Bernard Leach the potter.