Untitled (Harvard Mural sketch), 1962

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 279.1 x 235 cm (109 7/8 x 92 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number

1986.43.168

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

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

2014: Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 2014-2015, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 325, repro.

1997: Berrie, Barbara H., and Suzanne Quillen Lomax. "Azo Pigments: Their History, Synthesis, Properties, and Use in Artists' Materials." Studies in the History of Art 57 (1997): 19, 27, repro. no. 7.

1998: Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, 1998: no. 736, repro. (orientation of painting uncertain; this publication reproduces the painting differently from 1992 NGA summary catalogue, showing top of 1992 reproduction as bottom).

1998: Weiss, Jeffrey, ed. Mark Rothko. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: 322, fig. 11.