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2010.107
Date
1946
Medium
Watercolor
,
scraping
Support
Watercolor paper
Watermark
Whatman
Dimensions
22 x 29 7/8 in. (55.9 x 75.9 cm)
Inscription
Lower right in white paint: MARK ROTHKO
Collection
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
, Gift of Jacob and Ruth Kainen, 2010.107. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Photography Credit
© Addison Gallery of American Art
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Provenance
John and Ruth Stephan, Westport, Connecticut, 1947
William Boulton Dixon Stroud, Pennsylvania, 1973
Mrs. John C. Franklin, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1978
Sotheby's, New York, March 30, 1978, Lot number 5
Jacob and Ruth Kainen, Chevy Chase, Maryland, 1978–2001
Ruth Cole Kainen, Chevy Chase, Maryland, 2001–2009
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 2009
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1947
Exhibitions
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years
, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, April 13 – July 31, 1996, as
Personages
.
Foundations: Building the Addison Collection
, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, January 12 – April 1, 2001, as
Personages
.
"The Tiger's Eye": The Art of a Magazine
, Yale University Art Gallery, January 29 – March 30, 2002, as
Personages
.
Eye on the Collection
, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, January 19 – March 10, 2013, as
Personages
.
References
Stephan, Ruth, and John Stephan.
The Tiger's Eye 1
, no. 1 (October 1947): 55–56, 70 (b/w) [reproduced upside down].
Seitz, William C.
Abstract Expressionist Painting in America
. National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983: 30, plate 207 (b/w).
Jachec, Nancy. "Myth and the Audience: the Individual, the Collective and the Problem of Mass Communication by the Early 1950s." In
American Abstract Expressionism
, edited by David Thistlewood. Liverpool, 1993: 135, 137, fig. 38 (b/w) [erroneously titled
Possibilities
].
Thistlewood, David, ed.
American Abstract Expressionism
. Liverpool, 1993: 135, 137, fig. 38 (b/w) [erroneously titled
Possibilities
].
Franks, Pamela.
"The Tiger's Eye": The Art of a Magazine
. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2002: 29, 66-67, 68, 75 (color).
Faxon, Susan C. Rothko entry. In
On Paper: Masterworks from the Addison Collection
. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, 2004: 208, 209 (color).
Faxon, Susan C.
On Paper: Masterworks from the Addison Collection
. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, 2004: 208, 209 (color).
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