Harvard Art Museums > 1986.464: Untitled Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Untitled (Mark Rothko) , 1986.464,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/309374. This object does not yet have a description. 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 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. 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 American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006 American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023 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
