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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.463
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/309352

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and black ink over graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
image: 36.7 x 52.5 cm (14 7/16 x 20 11/16 in.)
actual: 37.6 x 53.5 cm (14 13/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 1030.41
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 4723©
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: 1030.41
  • inscription: verso, u.r.c., graphite: 1027 [crossed out] / 29 / 29
  • inscription: On verso, u.l., in graphite: Top
  • inscription: On verso, in graphite: 4723 © / 1030.41

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
1986.463
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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
  • Murray Whyte, "A Century of Watercolors at Harvard Display the Form's Unruly Pleasures", Boston Globe (Boston, July 2, 2023), p. N4
  • Brian T. Allen, "Harvard's Fogg Museum Comes Back to Life with a Glorious Watercolor Show", National Review (August 10, 2023), repr.
  • 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. 51 on p. 120

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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