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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.464
People
Mark Rothko, American (Dvinsk, Russia 1903 - 1970 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1944
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309374

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and ink on white wove paper wrapped around cardboard
Dimensions
actual: 53.6 x 71.3 cm (21 1/8 x 28 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso. upper center, black chalk: Mark Rothko
  • inscription: verso, left edge, black chalk: 1101.44
  • inscription: verso, center, brown crayon: 28 x 21
  • inscription: verso, l.l., blue crayon: X

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
1986.464
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The support is wrapped around a piece of paperboard. Work is affixed to backing mat.

Publication History

  • Eliminating the Obstacles between the Painter and the Observer: the Mark Rothko Foundation, 1976-198, Mark Rothko Foundation (New York, NY, 1986?), p. 54
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950", American Art Review (April 2006), XVIII, no. 2, pp. 88-93, repr. p. 93
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist, repr. (n.p.)
  • Murray Whyte, "A Century of Watercolors at Harvard Display the Form's Unruly Pleasures", Boston Globe (Boston, July 2, 2023), p. N4
  • Timothy Standring, [Review] "American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light", The Burlington Magazine (August 2023), 165, pp. 908-911, p. 909, fig. 24
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 50 on p. 119

Exhibition History

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