Untitled (Purple, White, and Red)

1. Estate of the artist, 1970; sold, Marlborough A. G., Liechtenstein/Marlborough Gallery, New York, to Sigmund E. Edelstone, Chicago, 1970; partially given to the Art Institute, 1983; remaining percentage bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Venice, Museo d’Arte Moderna Ca’Pesaro, Mark Rothko, June 21–Oct. 15, 1970, cat. 6 (color ill.), as Purple, White and Red, 1953.
• New York, Marlborough Gallery, Mark Rothko Paintings: 1947–1970, Nov. 13–Dec. 5, 1970, no cat.
• Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, Mark Rothko, May 3–Aug. 16, 1998, cat. 62; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sept. 10–Nov. 29, 1998; Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Jan. 8–Apr. 18, 1999 (Washington, D. C. and New York only).

• Museo d’Arte Moderna Ca’ Pesaro, Mark Rothko, exh. cat. (Venice: Museo d’arte Ca’Pesaro, 1970), n.p., cat. 6 (color ill.), as Purple, White and Red, 1953.
• Artforum 9, 3 (November 1970), back cover (color ill.).
• James N. Wood, The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1983–84 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), 7, 23, 53, as Purple, White and Red.
• James N. Wood, "Noteworthy Acquisitions of 1983–84,” in A Supplement to the 1983–84 Annual Report of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), 13 (color ill.), as Purple, White and Red.
• Anonymous, "Museum Received Important 20th-Century Paintings" in The Sustaining Fellows Newsletter: A Report from the Art Institute of Chicago (Spring 1984): n.p., as Purple, White and Red.
• James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York Graphic Society Books and Little, Brown and Company, 1988), 154 (color ill.), as Purple, White and Red.
• James N. Wood, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1999), 150 (color ill.).
• Nobuyuki Hiromoto, Mark Rothko, Contemporary Great Masters 4 (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993), n.p., pl. 23 (color ill.), 113, as Purple, White and Red.
• James N. Wood, Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting: The Art Institute of Chicago (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993), 303 (color ill.), as Purple, White and Red.
• Steven Johnson, "Rothko Chapel and Rothko’s Chapel,” in Perspectives of New Music 32, 2 (Summer 1994): 10 (ill.), 30, as Purple, White and Red.
• David Anfam, Mark Rothko, The Works on Canvas: A Catalogue Raisonné (London: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 380, cat. 497 (color ill.).
• Jeffrey Weiss, ed., Mark Rothko, exh. cat. (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 136, cat. 62, 137 (color ill.),

Untitled (Painting)

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Untitled (Brown and Gray)

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Portrait of Mark Rothko

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