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Mark Rothko

Family, c. 1936

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 51.4 × 76.5 cm (20 1/4 × 30 1/8 in.)

framed: 60.64 × 86.36 × 8.57 cm (23 7/8 × 34 × 3 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number

1986.43.97

Artists / Makers

Mark Rothko (painter) American, born Russia (now Latvia), 1903 - 1970

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Copyright

Inscription

lower left: Rothkowitz; lower center reverse, inverted: Rothkowitz / Family

Provenance

The artist [1903-1970]; his estate; consigned 1970 to (Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York); transferred 1977 back to the artist's estate;[1] transferred 1979 to The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York; gift 1986 to NGA.

[1] For a detailed discussion of the transactions surrounding the Rothko estate see Lee Seldes, Legacy of Mark Rothko, New York, 1978.

Associated Names

Rothko Foundation, Inc., Mark, The

Exhibition History

1937: The Ten, Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1937, no cat.

1994: Against the Stream: Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko in the 1930s, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, 1994, unnumbered checklist, pl. 17.

2013: Mark Rothko: Paintings from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie [National Museum], Warsaw, 2013.

2019: Mark Rothko [German title: Mark Rothko: Dramaturg der Form], Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, 2019.

Bibliography

1937: Genauer, Emily. "Skillful and Sincere." New York World Telegram (1937): 10A.

1937: Kainen, Jacob. "Art: The Ten." Daily Worker (1937): 7.

1937: Klein, Jerome. "Third Show by The Ten Winds Up Busy Season." New York Post (1937): 26.

1937: "The Ten at Passedoit's." The Art Digest 11 (1937): 23.

1937: von Wiegand, Charmion. "The Fine Arts." New Masses 23 (1937): 32-33.

1989: Chave, Anna C. Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction. New Haven, 1989: 52, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 280, repro.

1993: Breslin, James E. Mark Rothko: A Biography. Chicago and London, 1993: no. 3, repro.

1998: Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 89, repro.