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Mark Rothko
[Latvian-born American Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1903-1970]

• Also known as:  Marcus Rothkowitz
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Original works by Mark Rothko available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
Untitled (Purple, White, and Red)

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
3 works online

Mark Rothko at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain   NEW!

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
3 works online

Mark Rothko at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
No. 13 (White, Red on Yellow), 1958 (Zoom)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
13 works by Mark Rothko online

Mark Rothko at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
248 works by Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Online exhibit Mark Rothko: His Life and Works

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Rothko

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Untitled No. 11, 1963, 1963 (Zoom)

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Sacrifice, 1946

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Sacrifice, 1946

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
5 paintings online

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Flash presentation of 15 works, including Rothko's White over Red, 1957
(click "explore 15 works" when you get past the intro)

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
7 works online

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Untitled

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Orange and Yellow, 1956

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Untitled

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Syrian Bull

Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive
Number 207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray), 1961

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!
Untitled (Red over Brown), 1967

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)   NEW!  

Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Untitled

Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)  

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire

Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese)  

Krannert Art Museum, Illinois
Number 13, 1949

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland   NEW!
Alphabetically under "R"

Mark Rothko in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin   NEW!
Green, Red, Blue

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Implements of Magic, ca.1945

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Untitled (image 35)

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Yellow Band

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  

Tate Gallery, London, UK

The Coe College Permanent Collection of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Red Abstract, 1944

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Green on Maroon, 1961

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Untitled, 1953

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Mark Rothko at Insecula

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
Unidentified paintings from a 2003 exhibition; the fourth is Rothko's Untitled, 1953

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
Photographs of a couple of Rothko's paintings

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
Another Form of Intervention/Studio Cleo

Beloit College Department of Classics
Sacrifice of Iphigenia, 1942

Repository of Abstract Art

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Untitled

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Mark Rothko
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Rothko: The Year 1949 - A Painter's Progress

PBS
"Rothko's Legacy"

Slate Magazine
"Heavenly Rectangles: Mark Rothko's floating abstractions of despair," article by Christopher Benfey

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Rothko's Progress Toward Abstraction Focuses on 1949

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Rothko's Surreal Killer May Have Been Greenberg

Time Magazine
"The Rabbi and the Moving Blur", 1978 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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Mark Rothko: Number 10, 1950
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Mark Rothko: Orange and Yellow, 1956
Orange and Yellow, 1956


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Mark Rothko: Untitled, 1951-55
Untitled, 1951-55


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Mark Rothko: Untitled, 1949
Untitled, 1949


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Mark Rothko: Blue, Green, and Brown
Blue, Green, and Brown


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White over Red
White over Red

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