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"When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them."

-Address at Pratt, 1958

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969

Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen

Photo by Eric Keune from the NGA show submitted to me on instagram where he is @erkitekt

52 3/4 × 41 in. (134 × 104.1 cm)

Estate/Inventory Number 2028.69

Collection Jon and Kim Shirley.

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko Artists Rights Society, New York

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i visited the rothko chapel when i was home in houston for spring break last week, and it was so cool. i didn’t know it existed till you answered that ask about it, so thanks :)

It's really nice to hear this. I'm glad you were able to go and get something out of it.

The project was very important to Rothko, probably his most important project, and he was very fastidious when it came to how to do the work. Those are some big paintings, but he obsessed about small details because he wanted it just so

Sad that he never got to see it, but I'm glad you did

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Just the usual reminder that if you have pictures of Rothko paintings that you took at museums (or at your house if you're incredibly rich), I'd love to see them and possibly post them on my social media accounts. It keeps the work alive to have your participation and new views of paintings can be enlightening.

You can get the infrequent Daily Rothko mailing by sending me your email at dailyrothko@gmail.com and you can ask me questions here (or there) any time.

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Also while no one on tumblr has any money, if you could share this post maybe as i will put (tax deductible) donations at the bottom of it, it might help me to get through the month. There's much I'd like to do for the legacy of Rothko but it's difficult to take large amounts of time (weeks, months) working on one thing because I am (and we all are generally) too poor,

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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969 acrylic on canvas 100 ⅛ × 79 ⅞ in. (254.3 × 202.9 cm) private collection © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society

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New bigger, better scan of this rather aggressive brown and gray series, which is in a private collection but made it out for the FLV show in Paris. The old pic (the only one I know of) was fine but colder by a measure. This scan makes the whole thing more coherent and rich.

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Today is my birthday, so I thought I would share photos that I got recently and I'm very happy to have. These pictures have not been seen in this fine condition by almost anyone, (One was reproduced on the wall at the Paris show) and the top studio shot for years was only known to me in black and white.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗢 222 Bowery, Lower east side, Manhattan 📸 Herbert Matter © Herbert Matter Estate/ Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives Artworks-© 2024 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

I don't have an official list of the paintings in these photographs I believe I recognize most of them, so these are my guesses:

Photo one and three- on the far left, partially obscured, No. 15, 1957, Oil on canvas

To the right of that- No. 12 (Black on Dark Sienna on Purple), 1960, Oil on canvas 120 1/8 × 105 ¼ in.

Continuing on the left side we have- No.8 (Gray, Orange and Maroon),1960

In the back up against the wall- No. 7, 1960, a painting that Rothko was famously photographed with by two different photographers

In the foreground- No. 21 (Untitled), 1949 Oil and mixed media on canvas 94 × 53 3/8 in. (238.8 × 135.6 cm)

To the right of that and leaning up against the wall is Untitled, No 11 / No 20, 1949 Oil on canvas, 238,1 × 134,9 cm

The partially obscured red painting on the back wall to the right I do not recognize. But if anybody does, please let me know.

Picture two-No 61 (Rust and blue), 1953, Oil on canvas, 115 cm × 92 cm (45 in × 36 in)

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No longer my birthday ( do I ever want a another?) but wanted to share these great (and rare in color) pics again

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A celebration of MARK ROTHKO (1903 – 1970) who created a new, passionate form of abstract painting— meticulous in its attention to colour, balance and depth, expressing ‘basic human emotions – tragedy, ecstasy, doom…’

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I have these and they are cool. Small in size, but legit, not a bootleg. However, I believe they are only available in Europe

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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969

Acrylic on Wove paper mounted on linen Dimensions71 13/16 x 48 1/8 in. (182.4 x 122.2 cm) Estate/Inventory Number2072.69 Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko Brown and Gray series

I took this picture today of this absolutely gorgeous painting. Sadly my better camera needs repair, but this is still better than most of our standing catalog scans. Thus might be my favorite of the brown and gray series. Remarkable in person.

Note that these sometimes look crooked because the white borders were painted on by Rothko, something he only chose to do for the black and gray and brown and gray series in 1969. The edge may seem like a small thing but Rothko always refused to contain his images, letting the paint appear borderless. For him, this was a significant change as was the dedication to this particular dark palette for a number of paintings. These on paper differ from the canvas black and gray series but the effect defies expectations about what paintings on paper can look like.

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Rothko's art has always interested me but I'm not sure why, because at the same time, I almost find them.. dull? I don't mean it as an insult at all because I am still fascinated somehow. It's hard to explain, but maybe that's just how art do. What is it that draws you to Rothko? What do you see personally? Genuinely curious to learn!

Well in your case I would say if you're drawn to it but you don't necessarily like it seems like a healthy amount of interest to me, the test is whether you come back

When I was a kid I heard a Robert Johnson record that my brother had and it's some of the starkest music in the world.

I was fascinated with that record even though I did not enjoy it at the time. I knew that it was different from other records and I kept being drawn back until that magnetic quality itself became so much part of the experience, I began to find love on another level.

Every time you see a painting you get a new set of eyes. Sometimes the next time you see something it's totally different, like the window blew open. It could happen to you.

As for my interest, I think I've answered that several times here in detail, but I would add that I never did not like him. I enjoyed his paintings long before I knew his name, when I was a kid I wanted to be an artist and I considered it my duty to go investigate what was out in the art world to study my future profession.

When I saw Rothko it was not like anything else I had seen. The color fields are not flat or geometric,or hard edge. It resembles that kind of painting compositionally, but the texture and transparency are so different. The paintings are layered and soft, and there's lots of curious brushwork and fine details that you can only really see in person.

That's part of the emotionality of his work. All the incidentals, the paint drips the colors over other colors, the frantic strokes beneath the surface have been made harmonious elements presenting something simple.

So it's always funny that people say that Rothko can't paint because to me, he's got a lot of panache.

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