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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
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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., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Brussels, Belgium, 1962), reproduced in b/w
  • Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma (Rome, Italy, 1962), reproduced in color no. 28
  • 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

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