April 24. On this date in 1976, Mark Tobey, an American painter who converted to the Baháʼí Faith at Green Acre, died in Switzerland, where he had been living since the early 1960s with his companion, Pehr Hallsten, with whom he had lived together since 1940.

 

April 24. On this date in 1976, Mark Tobey, an American painter who converted to the Baháʼí Faith at Green Acre, died in Switzerland, where he had been living since the early 1960s with his companion, Pehr Hallsten, with whom he had lived together since 1940.