Alton Stanley Tobey

Alton Stanley Tobey was born in Middletown, Connecticut in 1914. In 1934, he won a scholarship to the Yale University School of Fine Arts. After his military service, he completed his master's degree at Yale and taught there for a period.

He resided for most of his life in the village of Larchmont, part of the town of Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York. He was married to Roslyn Tobey, a piano teacher and musician. Their son, David Tobey, is a painter and musician.

Tobey died on January 4, 2005 in Mamaroneck, New York.

The New York Times obituary described Tobey as "a muralist, portraitist, and illustrator whose renderings of famous events and faces hang in museums, libraries, public buildings, corporate offices, and private collections."