Untitled (Painting) by Mark Rothko
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Painting)

Mark Rothko · 1953/54

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by the artist, New York, to the Art Institute, 1954.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • “Annual Report 1954–1955” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1955), n.pag., as “Untitled.”
  • “Recent Additions to the Twentieth Century Collection,” “The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly” 49, 2 (April 1, 1955), pp. 23–24, as “Untitled.”
  • “Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 404.
  • “Instituto de Arte de Chicago,” El mundo de los museos (Madrid: Editorial Codex, 1967), pp. 15 (ill.), 79 (color ill.).
  • James N. Wood, “Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting: The Art Institute of Chicago” (Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 305 (color ill.).
  • David Anfam, “Mark Rothko, The Works on Canvas: A Catalogue Raisonné” (National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, 1998), cat. 500 (color ill.).
  • Miguel López-Remiro, “Mark Rothko: Writings on Art” (Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 104–07.

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