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Mark Rothko (painter)
American, born Russia, 1903 - 1970
No. 8, 1949
oil and mixed media on canvas
overall: 228.3 x 167.3 cm (89 7/8 x 65 7/8 in.)
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.
Copyright © 1997 Christopher Rothko and Kate Rothko Prizel
1986.43.147
Not on View
From the Tour: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections
Object 4 of 8

1950"One-Picture Wall or Many-Picture Wall." Vogue (1950): 67, repro.
1983Delehanty, Hugh J. "Forty-Niner: Mark Rothko's Influence on Bay Area Artists." San Fransisco Focus (1983): 8, repro.
1984Bolen, Jean Shinoda. "Sacred Experience Evoked by Art: Mark Rothko's Painting and Gnosis." New Realities 6 (1984): 52, repro.
1984Peck, Cathy. "The Rothko Foundation Plans Its Future." Art News 83 (1984): 80, repro.
1985Clearwater, Bonnie. "How Rothko Looked at Rothko." Art News 84 (1985): 100, repo.
1988del Marquet, Iglesias. "El Maestro Rothko." Expression 4 (1988): repro.
1989"Mark Rothko." North Carolina Museum of Art: Preview (Summer 1989): 8, repro.; (Autumn 1989): cover illustration.
1991Doss, Erika. Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism. Chicago, 1991: 404, fig. 6.7.
1991Glimcher, Marc. The Art of Mark Rothko: Into an Unknown World. New York, 1991: 95, repro.
1992American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 315, repro.
1998Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 415, repro.

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