December 11. On this date in 1890, Mark Tobey was born. An American painter who converted to the Baháʼí Faith at Green Acre, he eventually settled in Switzerland in the early 1960s with his companion, Pehr Hallsten, with whom he had lived together since 1940.

 

December 11. On this date in 1890, Mark Tobey was born. An American painter who converted to the Baháʼí Faith at Green Acre, he eventually settled in Switzerland in the early 1960s with his companion, Pehr Hallsten, with whom he had lived together since 1940.