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Mark Rothko

Untitled

Maker

Mark Rothko (American, 1903-1970)

Title

Untitled

Year

1954

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

oil paint

Supports

Dimensions

238.1 x 143.2 x 4.5 cm (93 3/4 x 56 3/8 x 1 3/4 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum purchase in honor of Daniel Robbins: The Chace Fund, The Collectors' Acquisition Fund, Georgianna Sayles Aldrich Fund, Mary B. Jackson Fund, Walter H. Kimball Fund, Jesse Metcalf Fund, Museum Gift Fund, and gifts of Mrs. George Harding, Mrs. Lewis Madeira, Mrs. Malcolm Farmer, Mrs. Frank Mauran, George H. Waterman III, Mrs. Murray S. Danforth, Mrs. Russell Field, Mrs. Albert Pilavin, Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Ewing, Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. William Boardman, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neuberger, Mrs. Lee Day Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Haffenreffer, and Richard Brown Baker

Object Number

71.091

Type

Publications

Articles

Framing Art and the Art of the Frame
Drawing from the Collection

Exhibition History

Re-Viewing the Twentieth Century
Jul 21, 2006 – Apr 22, 2007
Celebrating the Jewish Contribution to Twentieth-Century American Art
Nov 12, 2004 – Mar 05, 2005
The New York School
Aaron Siskind in Context
Nov 07, 2003 – Jan 25, 2004

Label copy

Today the artist is no longer constrained by the limitation that all of man’s experience is expressed by his outward appearance. Freed from the need of describing a particular person, the possibilities are endless. The whole of man’s experience becomes his model, and in that sense it can be said that all of art is a portrait of an idea.

(Rothko, Pratt lectures, 1958)

New York School Abstraction
Nov 09, 2001 – Feb 17, 2002
Sign Language
Twentieth-Century Painting from the Permanent Collection
Jun 23, 2000 – Oct 29, 2000

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Tombstone

Mark Rothko (American, 1903-1970)
Untitled, 1954
Oil on canvas
238.1 x 143.2 x 4.5 cm (93 3/4 x 56 3/8 x 1 3/4 inches)
Museum purchase in honor of Daniel Robbins: The Chace Fund, The Collectors' Acquisition Fund, Georgianna Sayles Aldrich Fund, Mary B. Jackson Fund, Walter H. Kimball Fund, Jesse Metcalf Fund, Museum Gift Fund, and gifts of Mrs. George Harding, Mrs. Lewis Madeira, Mrs. Malcolm Farmer, Mrs. Frank Mauran, George H. Waterman III, Mrs. Murray S. Danforth, Mrs. Russell Field, Mrs. Albert Pilavin, Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Ewing, Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. William Boardman, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neuberger, Mrs. Lee Day Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Haffenreffer, and Richard Brown Baker 71.091

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