Harvard Art Museums > 1981.122: The Black and the White Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Black and the White (Mark Rothko) , 1981.122,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 11, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/227920. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1981.122 People Mark Rothko, American (Dvinsk, Russia 1903 - 1970 New York, NY) Title The Black and the White Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1956 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/227920 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 238.76 x 136.53 x 6.35 cm (94 x 53 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.) 262.9 x 161.3 x 10.8 cm (103 1/2 x 63 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Ruth and Frank Stanton, New York, New York, 1959, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1981. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Ruth and Frank Stanton Copyright © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 1981 Object Number 1981.122 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History "The New American Painting", Time [magazine] (August 4, 1958), reproduced in color Jong Amerika Schildert, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1958), no. 28, reproduced in b/w Emily Genauer, "Abstract Art that Toured Europe is Displayed Here", New York Herald Tribune (May 28, 1959), reproduced La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine, exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Brussels, Belgium, 1959), reproduced in b/w [Unidentified article], Time [magazine] (March 3, 1961), pp. 72, 73, 75, reproduced in color Peter Selz, Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Doubleday & Co. (Garden City, NY, 1961), reproduced in color, p. 25 Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma (Rome, Italy, 1962), reproduced in color no. 28 Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Brussels, Belgium, 1962), reproduced in b/w Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, reproduced in color, fig. 91, p. 95 Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 236, p. 206; repr. in b/w Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, Mark Rothko, Rizzoli (New York, 2022), Cover, p. 257, pl. 171, ill. (color) Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Citadelles & Mazenod and Foundation Louis Vuitton (Paris, 2023), pp. 14, 133, 300, cat. no. 75, ill. (color) Exhibition History The New American Painting, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 04/19/1958 - 05/26/1958; Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Milan, 06/01/1958 - 06/29/1958; Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 07/16/1958 - 08/11/1958; Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin, 09/01/1958 - 10/01/1958; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 10/17/1958 - 11/24/1958; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Brussels, 12/06/1958 - 01/04/1959; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 01/16/1959 - 02/15/1959; Tate Britain, London, 02/24/1959 - 03/23/1959; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 05/28/1959 - 09/08/1959 Mark Rothko, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 10/10/1961 - 11/08/1961; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 11/24/1961 - 12/27/1961; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Brussels, 01/06/1962 - 01/29/1962; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 03/03/1962 - 04/08/1962; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma, Rome, 04/27/1962 - 09/30/1962; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 75116 Paris, 12/05/1962 - 01/13/1963 Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986 32Q: 1200 Mid-Century Abstraction I (Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/05/2022 Mark Rothko, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 10/18/2023 - 04/02/2024 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu