(Dvinsk, Russia 1903 - 1970 New York, NY) Title

(Dvinsk, Russia 1903 - 1970 New York, NY) Title

Identification and Creation
Object Number
1981.122
People
Mark Rothko, American (Dvinsk, Russia 1903 - 1970
New York, NY)
Title
The Black and the White
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1956
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
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Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
238.76 x 136.53 x 6.35 cm (94 x 53 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
262.9 x 161.3 x 10.8 cm (103 1/2 x 63 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.)
Provenance
[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to
Ruth and Frank Stanton, New York, New York, 1959, gift;
to Fogg Art Museum, 1981.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Ruth and
Frank Stanton
Copyright
© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists
Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1981
Object Number
1981.122
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
[email protected]
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Publication History
"The New American Painting", Time [magazine]
(August 4, 1958), reproduced in color
Jong Amerika Schildert, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1958), no. 28,
reproduced in b/w
Emily Genauer, "Abstract Art that Toured Europe is
Displayed Here", New York Herald Tribune (May 28,
1959), reproduced
La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine, exh. cat., Palais des
Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Brussels, Belgium, 1959),
reproduced in b/w
[Unidentified article], Time [magazine] (March 3, 1961),
pp. 72, 73, 75, reproduced in color
Peter Selz, Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Doubleday & Co.
(Garden City, NY, 1961), reproduced in color, p. 25
Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
(Brussels, Belgium, 1962), reproduced in b/w
Mark Rothko, exh. cat., Galleria Nazionale d'Arte
Moderna, Roma (Rome, Italy, 1962), reproduced in
color no. 28
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A
Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art
Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York,
NY, 1985), no. 236, p. 206; repr. in b/w
Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The
Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, exh.
cat., Abbeville Press/Harvard University Art Museums
(New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, 1985), reproduced
in color, fig. 91, p. 95
Exhibition History
The New American Painting, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel,
04/19/1958 - 05/26/1958; Galleria Civica d'Arte
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Moderna, Milan, 06/01/1958 - 06/29/1958; Museo
Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 07/16/1958
- 08/11/1958; Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin,
09/01/1958 - 10/01/1958; Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam, 10/17/1958 - 11/24/1958; Palais des
Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Brussels, 12/06/1958 01/04/1959; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris,
01/16/1959 - 02/15/1959; Tate Gallery, London,
02/24/1959 - 03/23/1959; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York, 05/28/1959 - 09/08/1959
Mark Rothko, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London,
10/10/1961 - 11/08/1961; Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam, 11/24/1961 - 12/27/1961; Palais des BeauxArts, Brussels, Brussels, 01/06/1962 - 01/29/1962;
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 03/03/1962 - 04/08/1962;
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma, Rome,
04/27/1962 - 09/30/1962; Musée d'Art Moderne de la
Ville de Paris, 75116 Paris, 12/05/1962 - 01/13/1963
Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art
Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff
but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art
at [email protected]
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