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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.631
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/309461

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor on purple construction paper
Dimensions
18.3 x 31.4 cm (7 3/16 x 12 3/8 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
1986.631
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bonnie Clearwater, Mark Rothko: Works on Paper, Hudson Hills Press (New York, NY, 1984), no. 55, 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. 36, 56, repr. p. 57 (r&v); recto, pp. 31, 38; verso, p. 3
  • 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Mural Studies" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2008), Unpublished, passim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: 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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