1986.627: Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1986.627

People

Mark Rothko, American (Dvinsk, Russia 1903 - 1970 New York, NY)

Title

Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1961

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309369

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Opaque watercolor on pale green construction paper

Dimensions

actual: 12.4 x 18.6 cm (4 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mark Rothko; to the Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, 1970, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1986.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Copyright

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1986

Object Number

1986.627

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Support is faded.

Publication History

• Bonnie Clearwater, Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Hudson Hills Press (New York, NY, 1984), no. 51, repr.
• Eliminating the Obstacles between the Painter and the Observer: the Mark Rothko Foundation, 1976-198, Mark Rothko Foundation (New York, NY, 1986?), p. 54
• Marjorie B. Cohn, ed., Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals, Center for Conservation Studies, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1988), pp. 34, 50, repr. p. 51; fig. 22;
• Oliver Wick, Mark Rothko: Works on Paper 1930-1969; Herbert Matter and Kurt Blum: Two Swiss Photographers Encounter Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Galerie Beyeler (Basel, 2005), p. 30, note 34

Exhibition History

• Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 05/06/1984 - 08/05/1984; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 11/03/1984 - 01/06/1985; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 05/02/1985 - 06/16/1985; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 11/22/1985 - 01/13/1986; Portland Art Museum, Portland, 02/09/1986 - 04/06/1986; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 05/04/1986 - 06/29/1986; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 07/18/1986 - 09/01/1986; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, 09/19/1986 - 11/09/1986
• Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/06/1988 - 10/02/1988
• Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 07/26/2015

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