Description: Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
David Anfam
"Far and away the best monograph ever written on Rothko." —Yve-Alain Bois, Artforum

Originally published in 1998, this quintessential volume presents an overview of Mark Rothko’s stunning corpus of paintings on canvas and panel. With all works reproduced in color, the book includes the images for which Rothko is most famous—the large, hypnotic, poignant fields of color along with almost 400 additional paintings that are far less well known and reveal an artist who was attuned by turns to realism, expressionism, surrealism, and the avant-garde issues of his era.

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Author
David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Yale University Press
Print publication date September 1998 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300074891
EISBN 9780300256444
Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Illustrations 938
Print Status in print
Publisher (in print)
WorldCat
Google Books

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List of illustrations

  • Pêchage Assemblage
  • Monk by the Sea
  • Rosecrans Drive-In, Paramount
  • Rothko inscription
  • Rothko inscription
  • Still Life with Curtain and Pitcher
  • Rothko inscription
  • Portrait of an Eighty-Three Year Old Woman
  • Young Woman with Gloves, as reproduced in D.S. Meldrum's 1923 monograph on Rembrandt
  • Hendrickje, as reproduced in D.S. Meldrum's 1923 monograph on Rembrandt
  • Rembrandt's Mother as the Prophetess Hannah, as reproduced in Adolph Rosenberg's 1921 monograph on Rembrandt
  • Self-Portrait
  • The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, as reproduced in D.S. Meldrum's 1923 monograph on Rembrandt
  • A Family Group, as reproduced in D.S. Meldrum's 1923 monograph on Rembrandt
  • Rembrandt's Father, as reproduced in Adolph Rosenberg's 1921 monograph on Rembrandt
  • Workers in the Vineyard, as reproduced in D.S. Meldrum's 1923 monograph on Rembrandt
  • Diana and Actaeon, as reproduced in Adolph Rosenberg's 1921 monograph on Rembrandt
  • Susanna Surprised by the Elders, as reproduced in Adolph Rosenberg's 1921 monograph on Rembrandt
  • Woman Taken in Adulery, as reproduced in Adolph Rosenberg's 1921 monograph on Rembrandt
  • Dante and Virgil in Union Square
  • Wall Street, New York, 1915
  • El Station Interior, New York, 1935
  • The Scream
  • Artist in His Studio
  • Portrait of a Man and a Woman at a Casement
  • Two Women at a Window
  • Giuliano de Medici
  • Untitled
  • The Geographer
  • The Art of Painting, detail
  • Our Lady of Vladimir
  • The Annunciation
  • Sketches for the New Rochelle Post Office Murals Competition
  • Sketches for the Washington Social Security Building Murals Competition
  • Antigone, x-radiograph
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • The Painter of Horses
  • Laocoön
  • The Three Graces
  • Antigone [verso]
  • Oedipus (Untitled) [verso]
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • The Last Supper
  • Chimera
  • Study for stage deign for Cervante's Numance
  • Assyrian winged bull, guardian of the palace gate
  • Israel is No More
  • Marduk
  • Rothko inscription, verso, detail
  • Rothko inscription, recto, detail of Geologic Memory
  • Golden throne of Tutankhamun, rear detail
  • Ceremonial Egyptian chair, rear detail
  • Egyptian sun god as a falcon
  • Rothko inscription, verso of No. 18
  • Aeolian harp
  • The Black Marble Clock
  • The Four Rabbis
  • The Menorah and other vessels of the Temple
  • The Table
  • Rothko inscription, verso of No. 19 (Untitled)
  • Installation photograph of "Mark Rothko" exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
  • Installation photograph of "Mark Rothko" exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
  • Rothko inscription, verso of No. 1
  • Ground plan of the "Large Gallery" of "Mark Rothko" exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
  • Rothko, verso inscriptions
  • Installation photograph of "15 Americans" exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Installation photograph of "15 Americans" exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Ground plan of "Recent Paintings by Mark Rothko" exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
  • Installation photograph of "Mark Rothko" exhibition, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
  • Installation photograph of "Mark Rothko" exhibition, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
  • Installation photograph of the South Walls of the Rothko Chapel, Houston
  • Installation photograph of "Mark Rothko" exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
  • Installation photograph of "Mark Rothko" exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
  • Installation photograph of "Mark Rothko" exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
  • Installation photograph of "Mark Rothko" exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
  • Installation photograph of "Mark Rothko" exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
  • White Curtain
  • Frame shot from L'Avventura
  • Rooms by the Sea
  • Otto Sigismund in a High Chair
  • Untitled (Female Head)
  • Untitled
  • Seated Bather
  • No. 26
  • Untitled
  • Seascape
  • Untitled
  • Sacrificial Moment, detail
  • Untitled Photograph of Mark Rothko posing at work on Untitled (cat. no. 483)
  • Photograph of Mark Rothko's brush and paint pots
  • No. 2, detail
  • Blue over Red, detail
  • No. 1, detail
  • No. 10
  • Portrait of the Artist in a Mirror (Portrait de l'artiste dans la glace)
  • Paint soaking through the verso of a 1955 canvas
  • Paint soaking through the verso of a 1957 canvas
  • The Seagram murals
  • Untitled
  • That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)
  • Panels One, Two, and Three [Triptych]
  • Christ in the Tomb
  • Photograph of Mark Rothko in his garage studio at East Hampton
  • Installation photograph of the Rothko Chapel, Houston
  • Loneliness
  • The Peddler
  • Untitled [Two Jews]
  • Sketch in the Shade
  • Sketch Done in Full Sunlight
  • Composition I [verso]
  • Untitled [Still-life with Pitcher and Fruit]
  • Sophie
  • Untitled [Portrait of Leah Farber]
  • Beach Scene
  • Untitled [Still-life with Bananas and Apples]
  • Untitled [Landscape]
  • Untitled [Oregon Landscape]
  • Portrait of Rothko's Mother
  • Composition I [recto]
  • Woman Talking {Untitled}
  • Composition II
  • Head of a Woman [Sonia Rothkowitz] {Untitled}
  • Untitled [Portrait of Edith Sachar]
  • Head of Bayard {Untitled}
  • Minna/The Blue Dress
  • Portrait of a Young Girl {Untitled}
  • Portrait of a Young Boy {Untitled}
  • Conversation {Untitled}
  • Woman Combing Hair
  • Folded Hands {Untitled}
  • The Road
  • The Proposal {Untitled}
  • Untitled [Circus Scene]
  • Untitled [Man and Woman at a Table], verso
  • Lesson
  • Standing Figure
  • Untitled [Still-life with Bananas, Apples and Eggs]
  • Hurdy Gurdy Man (Left-Handed Banjo Player)
  • Woman and Cat {Untitled}
  • The Pugilist
  • Irene {Untitled}
  • Man Smoking {Untitled}
  • Nude {Untitled}
  • Seated Woman {Untitled}
  • Woman Reading {Untitled}
  • Discourse
  • Untitled [Reclining Nude]
  • The Red Blouse
  • Promenade
  • Untitled [Three Girls in a Landscape]
  • Bathers (or) Beach Scene {Untitled}
  • Bathers (or) Beach Scene
  • Untitled [Scene with Nude Figures]
  • Untitled [Scene with Female Nudes]
  • Untitled [Two Nudes]
  • Untitled [Two Seated Women]
  • Untitled [Woman and Seated Man]
  • Untitled [Sculptress]
  • Sculptress
  • Mother and Child {Untitled}
  • Untitled [Two Seated Women]
  • Untitled [Man and Two Women at a Table]
  • Seated Nude
  • Woman Sewing
  • Untitled [Street Scene with Walking Man]
  • Untitled [Girl with Pigtails]
  • City Phantasy, recto
  • Untitled [Sculptress]
  • Movie Palace
  • Untitled [Man with Green Face]
  • Untitled [Female Nude]
  • Untitled [Reclining Female Nude], verso
  • Untitled [Woman with Sculptures]
  • Untitled [Couple Kissing]
  • Untitled [Waiting Room]
  • Subway
  • Untitled [Musicians]
  • Untitled [String Quartet]
  • Crucifixion
  • Untitled [Three Women]
  • Untitled [Woman Arranging Flowers]
  • Untitled [Standing Female Nude]
  • Untitled [Male Portrait], recto
  • Interior, recto and verso
  • Music
  • Portrait
  • Self-Portrait
  • Rural Scene
  • Untitled [Figure Lying on Park Bench]
  • Untitled [Cityscape]
  • Formal Figures in Garden
  • Untitled [Women in a Hat Shop]
  • Untitled [Women in a Hat Shop]
  • Family
  • Landscape [?] {Untitled}
  • Figure Composition {Untitled}
  • Untitled [Lobby]
  • Restaurant [?]
  • Untitled [Woman and Girl by a Window]
  • Untitled [Man and Woman Holding Hands]
  • Street Scene
  • Untitled [William and Rose Sachar)]
  • Untitled [Three Women and a Child with Mannequins]
  • Mother and Child
  • Untitled [Mother and Child]
  • Untitled [Two Women at a Window]
  • Conversation [?] {Untitled}
  • El and Sidewalk
  • Untitled (The Subway) {Subway Station}
  • Untitled [Woman and Two Children]
  • Chamber Music
  • Untitled [Children Around a Table]
  • Untitled [Subway]
  • Untitled [Still-life with Rope, Hammer, and Trowel] [Double-sided Composition]
  • Untitled [Still-life with Mallet, Book, and Scissors] [Double-sided Composition]
  • Subway
  • Metropolitan Scene
  • Street Scene
  • Untitled [Four Figures in a Plaza]
  • Untitled [Four Figures in a Plaza]
  • Contemplation {Untitled}
  • Untitled [Nude]
  • Beach
  • Untitled [Mrs. Irving Tow]
  • Untitled [Reclining Nude]
  • Untitled [Figure and Doorway]
  • Untitled [Two Nudes in Front of a Screen]
  • Untitled [Nude]
  • Untitled [Nude], verso
  • Untitled [Woman Reclining by a Tree] [Double-sided Composition]
  • Untitled [Female Nude Standing by a Fireplace]
  • Untitled [Woman Standing by a Window]
  • Untitled [Still-life with Vase and Bottle]
  • Untitled [Still-life with Vase, Bottle, and Eggplant]
  • Untitled [Artist and Model]
  • Untitled [Two Women at a Table]
  • Untitled [Still-life in Front of a Window]
  • Untitled [Vase of Flowers] [Double-sided composition]
  • Untitled [Still-life with Vase of Flowers and Two Statues]
  • Entrance to Subway {Subway Station / Subway Scene}
  • Untitled [Seated Woman]
  • Untitled [Three Women Talking]
  • The Party {Untitled}
  • Untitled [Woman in Subway]
  • Untitled [Woman in Subway]
  • Untitled [Woman in Subway]
  • Untitled [Still-life], recto
  • Untitled [Female Head]
  • Untitled [Standing Man and Woman]
  • Subway
  • Mother and Child
  • Untitled [Still-life with Clock and Vase]
  • Untitled [Woman Reclining on a Couch]
  • Untitled [Two Female Nudes]
  • Untitled [Figure with a Racket]
  • Untitled [Still-life with Radio]
  • Untitled [Still-life with Mallet, Scissors, and Two Gloves]
  • Untitled [Still-life with Mallet, Scissors, and Glove]
  • Untitled [Two Women at a Window]
  • Untitled [Mother and Child]
  • Sculptor
  • Portrait of Mary
  • Thru the Window
  • Untitled [Study for New Rochelle Post Office Mural]
  • Self-Portrait
  • Nude
  • Craftsman
  • Untitled [Seated Man]
  • Portrait {Untitled}
  • Untitled [Subway]
  • Subway
  • Untitled [Subway Entrance]
  • Untitled [Man wth Racket and Ball]
  • Untitled [Still-life with Two Flowers and Banana]
  • Portrait of Joe Liss
  • Untitled [Nude]
  • Seated Figure
  • Untitled [Two Nudes Standing in Front of a Doorway]
  • Underground Fantasy {Subway [Subterranean Fantasy]}
  • Untitled [Man and Two Women in a Pastoral Setting]
  • Mother and Child
  • Seascape
  • Antigone
  • Oedipus {Untitled}
  • Untitled [Study for Social Security Building Mural]
  • Untitled
  • Leda
  • Untitled
  • A Last Supper
  • Untitled
  • Heads
  • Crucifix
  • In Limbo
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Greek Tragedy
  • Composition
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • The Eagle and the Hare
  • Untitled
  • Composition
  • The Omen of the Eagle
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Sacrifice of Iphigenia
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • The Syrian Bull
  • Untitled
  • The Omen
  • Iphigenia and the Sea / Horizontal Phantasy {Horizontal Phantom}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled [verso]
  • Untitled
  • Entombment/Entombment II/Processional I
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Olympian Play
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Birth of Cephalopods
  • Ritual I / Ritual
  • Ritual II
  • Tantalus {Untitled}
  • Landscape {Untitled}
  • Untitled
  • Entombment I / The Entombment
  • Untitled
  • Hierarchical Birds
  • Agitation of the Archaic
  • Gyrations on Four Planes (Horizontal Procession)
  • Poised Elements
  • Primeval Landscape
  • Gethsemane
  • Untitled
  • Vibrations of Aurora {Untitled}
  • Tiresias
  • Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea
  • Dance [?]
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Omens of Gods and Birds / Gods and Birds
  • Untitled
  • Landscape
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Phalanx of the Mind
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled [verso]
  • Archaic Fantasy
  • Rites of Lilith
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Ceremonial
  • Archaic Image [?] {Untitled}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Sacrificial Moment
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Hierophant {Untitled}
  • Fantasy {Untitled}
  • Intimations of Chaos
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • The Source
  • Gesture [?] {Untitled}
  • Votive Figure [or] Orison {Untitled}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Geologic Memory
  • Untitled
  • Horizontal Vision
  • Fantasy at Dawn [Double-sided Composition], obverse
  • Sea Fantasy
  • Vision at End of Day
  • Verdant Memory [?]
  • Untitled / Votive Figure [?] or Orison [?]
  • Astral Image
  • Untitled [verso]
  • Untitled
  • Personage
  • Room in Karnak
  • Untitled [verso]
  • Aeolian Harp / No. 7
  • No. 8 {Figure in Archaic Sea}
  • Personage Two
  • Vernal Memory / No. 12
  • Aquatic Drama
  • No. 14
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 18
  • Untitled {Composition}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Ceremonial Vessel [or] Sacred Vessel {Untitled}
  • No. 3 {Untitled}
  • Untitled
  • No. 11 {Untitled}
  • No. 25
  • No. 26
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled [recto]
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled [Double-sided Composition]
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled [recto]
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled [recto]
  • No. 21 {Untitled}
  • No. 6
  • Untitled
  • No. 24
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 2
  • Untitled [recto]
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 9
  • No. 10
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 22
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Multiform}
  • No. 26
  • Untitled
  • No. 18
  • Untitled
  • No. 10
  • No. 5 / No. 24
  • Untitled
  • No. 18
  • Untitled
  • No. 1 {Untitled}
  • Untitled {Multiform}
  • No. 4 / No. 4a
  • No. 7 / No. 5 (Untitled)
  • No. 9 {Multiform / Untitled}
  • No. 19 {Untitled}
  • No. 1 (No. 18, 1948)
  • No. 13
  • No. 14 (Golden Composition)
  • No. 15
  • No. 16 / No. 12 (Mauve Intersection)
  • No. 17 / No. 15 {Multiform}
  • No 18 / No. 16 {Untitled / Plum, Orange, Yellow}
  • No. 19
  • No. 20
  • No. 21 {Multiform / Untitled}
  • No. 22 / No. 16 {Central Green}
  • No. 21 {Untitled}
  • No. 1
  • No. 2 (Yellow and Orange)
  • No. 3 / No. 13 {Magenta, Black, Green on Orange}
  • No. 4 / No. 32
  • No. 5 {Untitled}
  • No. 6 [?] / No. 12
  • No. 7 / No. 11 {Untitled}
  • No. 8 {Multiform}
  • Untitled
  • No. 9 / No. 24
  • No. 10
  • No. 10 {Multiform}
  • No. 11 / No. 20 {Untitled}
  • Untitled {Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 30
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Red, Yellow, Blue, Black and White}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 11 {Yellow, Green and Black}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Orange, Plum, Yellow}
  • No. 5 / No. 22
  • Untitled
  • White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 16 [?] {Untitled}
  • Untitled {Blue, Dark Blue, Yellow}
  • No. 10
  • No. 1 (Orange and Yellow)
  • No. 2 / No. 7 / No. 20
  • No. 3 {Untitled}
  • No. 4 (Two Dominants) {Orange, Plum, Black}
  • No. 6 {Violet, Green and Red}
  • No. 7
  • No. 8 (Yellows and Red) {Untitled}
  • No. 9 {Untitled}
  • No. 12
  • No 13 [?]
  • No. 14
  • No. 15 [?] {Untitled}
  • No. 16 [?] {Green, White, Yellow on Yellow}
  • Untitled {Green, Red on Orange}
  • No. 18
  • No. 21 {Red, Brown, Black and Orange}
  • No. 24 {Untitled}
  • No. 25 {Red, Gray, White on Yellow}
  • Untitled (Black, Pink and Yellow over Orange)
  • {Red, Dark Green and Green}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Lavender and Green}
  • Untitled {Blue, Green and Brown}
  • No. 8
  • No. 9 / No. 5 / No. 18
  • No. 10
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 15
  • No. 10 [?] {Untitled}
  • No. 20 (Yellow Expanse) {Untitled}
  • No. 2 (Blue, Red and Green) {Yellow, Red, Blue on Blue}
  • No. 3 {No. 1}
  • No. 4 {Yellow, Black, Orange on Yellow / Untitled}
  • Blue over Red
  • Untitled {Red, Black, Orange, Yellow on Yellow}
  • No. 8 (Lilac and Orange over Ivory) {Orange and Lilac over Ivory}
  • No. 7 (Green and Maroon)
  • No. 61 (Rust and Blue) {Brown, Blue, Brown on Blue}
  • {Violet, Black, Orange on Gray}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {White, Yellow, Red on Yellow}
  • Untitled (Yellow, Red and Blue)
  • Untitled {Purple, White and Red}
  • Untitled
  • No. 14 / No. 10 (Yellow Greens)
  • Untitled (Painting)
  • Orange and Tan
  • Untitled
  • No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue) {Untitled}
  • Untitled {Red, Black, Orange and Pink on Yellow}
  • No. 6 {Yellow, White, Blue over Yellow on Gray}
  • No. 7 (Dark over Light)
  • No. 203 [?] {Red, Orange, Tan and Purple}
  • No. 9 (Dark over Light Earth / Violet and Yellow in Rose)
  • No. 27 (Light Band) {White Band}
  • Light Earth and Blue
  • No. 11 [?] / No. 2 (Yellow Center)
  • Untitled {Yellow and Blue}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Blue, Yellow, Green on Red}
  • Untitled
  • No. 12 (Red and Yellow) {Yellow, Orange, Red on Orange}
  • The Ochre (Ochre, Red on Red)
  • Untitled
  • White and Brick on Light Red (White, Pink and Mustard)
  • Untitled
  • Homage to Matisse
  • Three Reds
  • Untitled
  • The Green Stripe
  • Red and Orange
  • Untitled {Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange}
  • Untitled {Yellow, Pink, Yellow on Light Pink}
  • Untitled {White and Orange}
  • Yellow and Blue {Yellow, Blue on Orange}
  • Untitled {Red, Blue, Orange}
  • Red Band {Untitled}
  • No. 14 {Untitled}
  • Earth and Green
  • Untitled
  • Violet Center
  • Untitled {Red, Black, White on Yellow}
  • Green, Red, Blue
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 44 (Two Darks in Red)
  • No. 36 (Light Red over Dark Red)
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Green on Blue (Earth-Green and White)
  • Light over Deep
  • Untitled
  • White Cloud
  • White over Red
  • Orange and Yellow
  • Yellow and Gold
  • Orange on Red
  • Untitled {Red}
  • Violet Stripe
  • Olive over Red
  • Golden Yellow and Magenta {Beige, Yellow, Purple}
  • Yellow Band
  • Orange, Red, Yellow
  • No. 32
  • Yellow over Purple
  • Yellow and White
  • No. 15 / No. 3
  • Untitled
  • No. 16 (Henna and Green / Green and Red on Tangerine)
  • Blue over Orange
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 9 [?]
  • Light over Gray
  • Plum and Brown
  • Blue Cloud
  • Untitled
  • Old Gold over White
  • The Black and the White
  • White Cloud over Purple
  • Light Cloud, Dark Cloud
  • Violet Bar
  • White Center
  • Light Area over Red (Pink and White over Red)
  • No. 1
  • Untitled {Yellow on Orange}
  • Orange
  • No. 3 (Green and Blue) {Untitled}
  • Untitled
  • No. 7 [?] (Orange and Chocolate)
  • Saffron
  • No. 10
  • No. 11 {Untitled}
  • Untitled {Blue on Red}
  • No. 14 (White and Greens in Blue)
  • No. 15 {Dark Greens on Blue with Green Band}
  • No. 16 (Two Whites, Two Reds)
  • No. 16 (Red, White and Brown)
  • Black in Deep Red
  • Purple Brown
  • Browns
  • Untitled
  • No. 20 (Deep Red and Black) {Brown, Black on Maroon}
  • No. 46 {Red, Ochre, Black on Red/ Black, Ochre, Red over Red}
  • Untitled
  • Orange and Red on Red
  • Black over Reds {Black on Red}
  • Light Red over Black
  • Brown and Blacks in Reds
  • No. 22 (Reds)
  • Four Reds
  • Brown over Red {Red and Brown}
  • Black Stripe {Orange, Gold and Black}
  • Tan and Black on Red
  • No. 40 (Blue Penumbra)
  • Reds {Red Painting}
  • Untitled
  • Four Darks in Red
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 5
  • No. 8 (White Stripe)
  • No. 9 (White and Black on Wine) {Black, Maroons, and White}
  • No. 10
  • Untitled {Black on Maroon}
  • Black and Dark Red on Red
  • No. 13 {White, Red on Yellow}
  • No. 14 / No. 9 (Red over Three Browns)
  • No. 15
  • No. 16 (Ocher and Orange)
  • No. 16 (Red, Brown and Black)
  • No. 17 (Mulberry and Brown)
  • No. 17 (Bottle Green and Deep Reds)
  • No. 18 (Brown and Black on Plum)
  • No. 24 (Brown, Black and Blue)
  • Untitled {Yellow}
  • No. 31 (Yellow Stripe)
  • No. 36 (Black Stripe)
  • No. 37 / No. 19 (Slate Blue and Brown on Plum)
  • Black Area in Reds
  • Sketch for Mural [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled {Deep Red on Maroon}, [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled {Black on Maroon}, [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Mural Sketch [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Sketch for "Mural No. 1" [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Sketch for "Mural No. 4" {Orange on Maroon} [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Sketch for "Mural No. 6" (Two Openings in Black over Wine) {Black on Maroon} [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Narrow End for a Mural [Seagram Mural]
  • Untitled {Sketch for Mural / Black on Maroon} [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Sketch for "Mural No. 7" [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled {Black on Maroon} [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Mural Sketch [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Mural for End Wall {Untitled} [Seagram Mural]
  • Untitled [Seagram Mural for End Wall Sketch]
  • Mural Sketch [Seagram Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled [Segram Mural Section]
  • Mural, Section 1 [Section Mural]
  • Mural, Section 2 {Red on Maroon} [Seagram Mural]
  • Mural, Section 3 {Black on Maroon} [Seagram Mural]
  • Untitled {Black on Maroon} [Seagram Mural Section]
  • Mural, Section 4 {Red on Maroon} [Seagram Mural]
  • Mural, Section 5 {Red on Maroon} [Seagram Mural]
  • Mural, Section 6 {Untitled} [Seagram Mural]
  • Mural, Section 7 {Red on Maroon} [Seagram Mural]
  • Untitled {Red and Brown}
  • No. 301 {Reds and Violet over Red / Red and Blue over Red}
  • Untitled (Brown, Red, Black)
  • Sienna, Black on Dark Red
  • Untitled
  • Maroon on Blue
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • No. 7
  • No. 8 {Gray, Orange on Maroon}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Three Blacks in Dark Blue}
  • Untitled
  • No. 12 (Black on Dark Sienna on Purple)
  • No. 14
  • No. 210 / No. 211 {Orange}
  • No. 16 {Orange, Purple, Orange}
  • No. 19 (Red and Black / Red over Black on Red)
  • No. 16
  • No. 22 (Red over Plum and Black) {Red, Brown, Deep Blue on Maroon}
  • No. 43 (Mauve)
  • No. 64 {Untitled}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled (Mauve and Orange) {Cadmium Red, Lavender, Mauve Pink}
  • Untitled {Orange and Red}
  • No. 1 {Grayed Olive Green, Red on Maroon / Untitled}
  • No. 2 / No. 101
  • Orange, Red, Yellow
  • Untitled
  • No. 5 (Reds)
  • No. 6 (Reds, Light and Dark)
  • Untitled {Shades of Red}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Blue, Orange, Red
  • No. 14 (Painting)
  • Untitled {Orange, Dark Ruby, Brown on Maroon}
  • No. 22 {Untitled}
  • No. 117
  • No. 118
  • No. 119 {Untitled}
  • No. 207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray)
  • No. 215 {Untitled}
  • Untitled {Green on Maroon}
  • No. 14 (Horizontals, White over Darks)
  • No. 1
  • No. 2
  • No. 212
  • Red, Orange, Orange on Red
  • Untitled {Black and Orange on Red}
  • Untitled {Red-Brown, Black, Green, Red}
  • No. 1 (White and Red)
  • No. 2 (Red Maroons)
  • No. 3 (Bright Blue, Brown, Dark Blue on Wine)
  • Untitled
  • Orange, Red and Red
  • No. 6 / Sienna, Orange on Wine
  • Blue and Gray
  • Untitled {Brown, Green, Green-Gray on Deep Brown}
  • Untitled {Rust, Blacks on Plum}
  • Untitled {Umber, Blue, Umber, Brown}
  • No. 28
  • Untitled {Sienna, Orange and Black on Dark Brown}
  • Untitled (Silver, Orange, Plum)
  • No. 30 {Pink, Brown, Wine and Black}
  • Untitled [Harvard Mural Sketch]
  • Sketch for Mural {Blue on Red with Two Verticals} [Harvard Mural Sketch]
  • No. 213 [?] [Harvard Mural Sketch]
  • Mural Sketch # 1 [Harvard Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled [Harvard Mural Sketch]
  • Untitled [Harvard Mural Sketch]
  • Panel One [Harvard Mural Triptych]
  • Panel Two [Harvard Mural Triptych]
  • Panel Three [Harvard Mural Triptych]
  • Panel Four [Harvard Mural]
  • Panel Five [Harvard Mural]
  • Panel Six [Harvard Mural]
  • Untitled
  • No. 2 {Untitled}
  • Untitled
  • No. 5 (Red, Black and Brown-Black) {Red, Black, Brown on Maroon}
  • Untitled
  • No. 7 {Dark Brown, Gray, Orange}
  • No. 10 / Brown, Black, Sienna on Dark Wine {Untitled}
  • No. 11
  • Untitled
  • No. 202 (Orange, Brown)
  • Untitled
  • No. 14
  • No. 14 (Browns over Dark) {Dark over Brown}
  • No. 18 {Black, Orange on Maroon}
  • Untitled {Brown, Orange, Blue on Maroon}
  • Untitled {White, Blacks, Grays on Maroon}
  • Untitled {Dark Gray on Maroon}
  • Untitled ["Predella" to Harvard Mural Panel Four]
  • Untitled ["Predella" to Harvard Mural Panel Two]
  • No. 15 {Two Greens and Red Stripe}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Black, Red over Black on Red}
  • Untitled {Brown on Red}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Light Plum and Black}
  • Untitled {Plum and Brown}
  • Untitled {Plum and Dark Brown}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Plum and Dark Brown}
  • No. 1
  • No. 2 {Black on Deep Purple}
  • No. 3 {Plum and Black}
  • No. 4 {Untitled}
  • No. 5 {Untitled}
  • No. 5
  • No. 6 [?] {Black on Black}
  • No. 7 {Black on Dark Maroon}
  • No. 8
  • Untitled [Study for Rothko Chapel Mural]
  • Untitled [Study for Rothko Chapel Mural]
  • Untitled [Rothko Chapel--Related Painting]
  • Untitled [Additional Chapel Painting, First of Pair "A"]
  • Untitled [Additional Chapel Painting, Second of Pair "A"]
  • Untitled [Additional Chapel Painting, First of Pair "B"]
  • Untitled [Additional Chapel Painting, Second of Pair "B"]
  • Untitled [Additional Chapel Painting, First of Pair "C"]
  • Untitled [Additional Chapel Painting, First of Pair "C"]
  • Untitled [North Wall Apse Triptych, Left Panel]
  • Untitled [Northeast Angle-Wall Painting]
  • Untitled [East Wall Triptych, Left Panel]
  • Untitled [Southeast Angle-Wall Painting]
  • Untitled [South Entrance-Wall Painting]
  • Untitled [Southwest Angle-Wall Painting]
  • Untitled [West Triptych, Left Panel]
  • Untitled [Northwest Angle-Wall Painting]
  • Untitled {Green, Black, Green}
  • Untitled
  • No. 3
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Red, Orange, Red}
  • No. 3 (Untitled/Orange)
  • Untitled {Red, Orange}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Black on Gray}
  • Untitled {Black and Gray}
  • Untitled {Black on Gray}
  • Untitled {Black on Gray}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Black on Gray}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Black on Gray}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled {Black on Gray}
  • Untitled {Black on Gray}
  • Untitled {Black on Gray}
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
  • Untitled
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Contents
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Foreword
Earl A. Powell III
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
~Mark Rothko belonged to a generation of American artists that changed the nature of abstract painting. Working on a large scale, Rothko created paintings of unprecedented breadth and radiance, suffusing his images with the aura of a numinous presence. Given the reach of both his ambition and his achievement, Rothko’s legacy-like that of other New York...
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David Anfam
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Preface and Acknowledgments
David Anfam
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
~A catalogue raisonné can be understood as a reunion of a special kind. It unites in one place a record of objects that may never before have existed together. Certainly, this is the case with the works of Mark Rothko. Created over a period of almost half a century, Rothko’s paintings have long since been globally dispersed. The process of regrouping...
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David Anfam
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Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Guide to the Catalogue Raisonné
David Anfam
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
Contrary to the impression given by the design of most publications that feature Rothko’s work, his paintings vary considerably in size...
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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The Paintings of Mark Rothko—A Complex Simplicity
David Anfam
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
We face an austere image. It is almost a blank facade, an expanse of perhaps two or three colors which seem to have materialized from nowhere like a mirage...
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Subjects: Abstract expressionsim--United StatesIdea (Philosophy) in artRepetition (Aesthetics)Painting, American--20th century

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I. The Early Years: 1924–1939
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
~“For me the great achievements of the centuries in which the artist accepted the probable and familiar as his subjects were the pictures of the single human figure—alone in a moment of utter immobility”—Rothko Mark Rothko, “The Romantics Were Prompted,”...
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Subjects: Still-life painting, AmericanPortrait painting, AmericanPainting, Amereican--20th centuryModernism (Art)City and town life in art

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II. The Years of Transition: 1940–1950
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
~“We came face to face with experiences in which we had no inclination to read Goethe, but took up Shakespeare, or the Bible, or Aeschylus, if it was possible to read at all”—Karl Jaspers Karl Jaspers, Unsere Zukunft und Goethe (Zurich, 1948), p. 22.
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Subjects: Mythology, Greek, in artSurrealismModernism (Art)--Classical influencesAbstract expressionsim--United StatesPainting, American--20th century

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III. The Classic Years: 1951–1970
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
~“I paint very large pictures. … The reason I paint them, however,—I think it applies to other painters I know—is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human”—Rothko, 1951 Mark Rothko, statement in “A Symposium on How to Combine...
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Subjects: Symbolism of colorsColor-field paintingRepetition (Aesthetics)Painting, AbstractPainting, American--20th century

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Catalogue Raisonné, 1924–1939 (Cat. nos. 1–173)
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
Catalogue Raisonné (1924–1939)
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

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Catalogue Raisonné, 1940–1949 (Cat. nos. 174–433)
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
Catalogue Raisonné (1940–1949)
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

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Catalogue Raisonné, 1950–1959 (Cat. nos. 434–669)
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
Catalogue Raisonné (1950–1959)
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
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Catalogue Raisonné, 1960–1970 (Cat. nos. 670–834)
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
Catalogue Raisonné (1960–1970)
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
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Concordance of Estate and Catalogue Numbers
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
Concordance of Estate and Catalogue Numbers
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David Anfam
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Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Works in Public Collections
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
Works in Public Collections
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Reference Abbreviations
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
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David Anfam
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Bibliography
David Anfam
Description: Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
This bibliography tends to inclusiveness on the grounds that future scholarship is best served by a wide-ranging reference base...
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David Anfam
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
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Copyright© 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
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Illustration Acknowledgments
David Anfam
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
The publishers would like to thank the owners of the pictures for providing and/or permitting the reproduction of the photographs used in this book...
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David Anfam
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Index
David Anfam
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné
Index
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