Joe Dolice is curator for the estate of the late artist Alton S. Tobey (1914-2005) and is actively selling Tobey’s work to collectors, galleries, museums and other art buyers.   

Alton Tobey was born in Middletown, CT and received his BFA and MFA at the Yale School of Fine Arts and later taught there for four years.  He also taught at the City College of New York and served as juror for many prestigious art competitions.  Tobey’s work is in over 30 museums and in important government, corporate and private art collections.  He has had over 50 one-man exhibitions and his work has been published in over a dozen national magazines and books.  He has over three dozen historic murals to his name. 

A November ’07 feature article on Tobey and his work in Illustration Magazine  is at http://www.altontobey.com/illusarticle.pdf.  Tobey’s colorful history is found at http://altontobey.com/man.html.  A portion appears below: 

Tobey is well known for his indefatigable sense of humor. Always ready to deliver a pun or comic statement with an absolutely straight face, some of this humor can also be found in the social activities he pursued and sometimes even in his paintings. The two humorous paintings below, of “Dogs Playing Golf” (possibly inspired by C. M. Coolidge’s series of “Dogs Playing Poker”) were published as offset lithographs; and his scathingly satirical tree showing the “Evolution of Man”  … appeared in National Lampoon magazine in its January 1974 issue. Like many other artists who were best-known or well-known for “serious” art, Tobey often signed these works with a pseudonym known only to his intimates, or he did not sign them at all.