Harvard Art Museums > 1986.478: Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals) (recto and verso) 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 (Study for Harvard Murals) (recto and verso) (Mark Rothko) , 1986.478,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 15, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/309397. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1986.478 People Mark Rothko, American (Dvinsk, Russia 1903 - 1970 New York, NY) Title Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals) (recto and verso) Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1961 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/309397 Physical Descriptions Medium Opaque watercolor on purple construction paper Dimensions actual: 17.9 x 19.4 cm (7 1/16 x 7 5/8 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 1986.478 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 Dried glue along right edge. Cut flap of paper c. 1.4 cm long at upper edge. Liquid stains on recto and verso. 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 Marjorie B. Cohn, ed., Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals, Center for Conservation Studies, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1988), pp. 34, 38, 48; repr. p. 49 (r&v); verso repr. fig. 30; pp. 31, 35, 36 Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, Spain, 2000), repr. p. 125 (color) Mark Rothko: "A Consummated Experience between Picture and Onlooker", exh. cat., Hatje Cantz Publishers [Fondation Beyeler] (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany [Basel, Switzerland], 2001), no. 77, verso repr. (color) 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 Annie Wilker and Jens Stenger, "A Technical Analysis of the Materials Used in Mark Rothko's Mural Studies" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2008), Unpublished, passim Exhibition History Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/06/1988 - 10/02/1988 Mark Rothko, Fundació Joan Miró, 08038 Barcelona, 11/25/2000 - 01/28/2001; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 02/18/2001 - 04/29/2001 Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 07/26/2015 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
