Rothko Mark - Mark Rothko, 1903-1970 : A Retrospective

Rothko, Mark; Waldman, Diane Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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MARK ROTHKO

A RETROSPECTIVE

MARK ROTHKO,1903-1970A Retrospective

frontispiece

Mark Rothko on his birthday'in1960, 222 Bowery, New York.Photo by Regma Bogat

The American Sublime

Copyright 1936 by Wallace Stevens and renewed1964 by Holly Stevens. Reprinted from The CollectedPoems of Wallace Stevens, by permission of Alfred A.Knopf, Inc.

Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York,in collaboration with The Solomon R. GuggenheimFoundation, New York, 1978

Book design: Nai Y. ChangEditor: Carol Fuerstein

ISBN 0-89207-014-5

Library of Congress Card Catalogue Number 78-584 11

All Rights Reserved. No part of the contents

of this book may be reproduced without the written

permission of the publisher

Printed and bound in Japan

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

PRESIDENTTRUSTEES

HONORARY TRUSTEESIN PERPETUITY

Peter O. Lawson-Johnston

The Right Honorable Earl Castle Stewart, Joseph W. Donner, JohnHilson, Eugene W. Leake, Frank R. Milliken, A. Chauncey Newlin,Mrs. Henry Obre, Albert E. Thiele, Michael F. Wettach

Solomon R. Guggenheim, Justin K. Thannhauser, Peggy Guggenheim

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

DIRECTORSTAFF

ADVISORY BOARDLIFE MEMBERS

CORPORATE PATRONS

GOVERNMENT PATRONS

Thomas M. Messer

Henry Berg, Deputy Director

Susan Halper, Executive Assistant; Vanessa Jalet, Secretary to theDirector

Louise Averill Svendsen, Senior Curator; Diane Waldman, Curator ofExhibitions; Margit Rowell, Curator; Angelica Zander Rudenstine,Research Curator; Linda Konheim, Curatorial Administrator (on leave);Linda Shearer, Assistant Curator; Carol Fuerstein, Editor; VivianEndicott Barnett, Curatorial Associate; Mary Joan Hall, Librarian; WardJackson, Archivist; Susan Ferleger, Philip Verre, Clair Zamoiski,Curatorial Coordinators; Susan Hirschfeld, Curatorial Assistant

Mimi Poser, Public Affairs Officer; Miriam Emden, MembershipDepartment Head

Jane E. Heffner, Development Officer; Carolyn Porcelli, DevelopmentAssociate

Agnes R. Connolly, Auditor; Duncan Ralph, Administrative Assistant;Philip Almeida, Restaurant Manager; Charles Hovland, Sales Supervisor;Darrie Hammer, Katherine W. Briggs, Information

David Roger Anthony, Technical Officer; Orrin H. Riley, Conservator;Dana L. Cranmer, Conservation Assistant; Elizabeth M. Funghini,Cherie A. Summers, Associate Registrars; Jack Coyle, Registrars'Assistant; Saul Fuerstein, Preparator; Scott A. Wixon, OperationsCoordinator; David Mortensen, Carpenter; Robert E. Mates,Photographer; Mary Donlon, Associate Photographer

David A. Sutter, Building Superintendent; Guy Fletcher, Jr., AssistantBuilding Superintendent; Charles F. Banach, Head Guard

Aye Simon

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Edwards, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Fuller,Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, Mr. and Mrs. Peter O. Lawson-Johnston,Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenman, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Scheuer

Alcoa Foundation, Atlantic Richfield Foundation, Exxon Corporation,Mobil Corporation

National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts

Lenders to the exhibition

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Blinken

Leonard and Ruth Bocour

Honorable and Mrs. Irwin D. Davidson

Gerald S. Elliott, Chicago

Arnold and Milly Glimcher, New York

Graham Gund

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller, New York

MH Holdings Inc. ( courtesy Mr.&

Mrs. Donald B. Marron)

Barbara and Donald Jonas

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kardon

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Klebanoff,

New York

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kolin

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Lang,

Medina, Washington

Steingrim Laursen, Copenhagen

Dr. Paul Todd Makler

McCrory Corporation, New York

Mrs. Barnett Newman

Betty Parsons, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Phillips,

New York

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

Tiziana de R., Geneva

Estate of Mark Rothko

Estate of Mary Alice Rothko

Mrs. Hannelore Schulhof

Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.,

New York

Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine,Meriden, ConnecticutFrederick Weisman Family CollectionMr. and Mrs. Bagley Wright

Albright-rCndx Art Gallery, Buffalo,

New York

Art Gallery of Ontario

The Brooklyn Museum

Dartmouth College Museum and

Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire

The Fort Worth Art Museum

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,

Diisseldorf

Milwaukee Art Center

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,

Utica, New York

Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute,

Pittsburgh

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of

Design, Providence

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Modern Art,

New York

The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.

The St. Louis Art Museum

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

The Toledo Museum of Art

University Art Museum, University of

California, Berkeley

Vassar College Art Gallery,

Poughkeepsie, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art,

New York

Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich

The Pace Gallery

Table of Contents

Lenders to the Exhibition p. 6

Acknowledgements Thomas M. Messer, p. 9

Preface Thomas M. Messer, p. 12

The Aquamarine Sunrise: A Memory of Rothko Bernard Malamud, p. 13

Mark Rothko: The Farther Shore of Art Diane Waldman, p. 16

Plates p. 73

Chronology Clair Zamoiski, p. 265

Exhibitions and Selected Reviews p. 280

Bibliography p. 292

Photographic Credits p. 296

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Acknowledgements

A

retrospective of Mark Rothko's painting would be an event of signifi-cance in any circumstances. The current presentation, however, is unique intwo respects: first, it is the most comprehensive survey of Rothko's work everheld and, second, the artist's tragic death in 1970 bestows upon it a finalitywhich obviously would not obtain in an exhibition mounted during hislifetime. Furthermore, this is the first show of Rothko's painting after analmost decade-long hiatus caused by extensive litigationcourt proceed-ings that made it impossible until now to realize an exhibition or even to gainaccess to a representative sampling of the artist's lifework from which aselection could be made.