Mark Rothko in New York

Mark Rothko; Diane Waldman; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

ISBN 10: 0810968789 / ISBN 13: 9780810968783

Published by Solomon R Guggenheim Museum/Abrams, New York, U.S.A., 1995

About this Item

Book as new and unread in black boards. Book cover RH corners slightly curled inwards, more evidently on dust jacket. Stunningly illustrated throughout, with 66 colour plates and 7 b&w illustrations. A compendium of all Rothko's work held by five New York City art museums: The Brooklyn Museum, The Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The text, by the deputy director and senior curator at the Guggenheim, provides an overview of this visionary artist's work, with specific focus on the city's impact on his art and career. A heavy book, weighing over 1kg, this may need extra postage outside the UK.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mark Rothko in New York
• Publisher: Solomon R Guggenheim Museum/Abrams, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810968789
• ISBN 13: 9780810968783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 1.1 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was among the greatest painters of his generation. His closest friends and colleagues were New Yorkers, and New York was the city in which he lived and worked. It is fitting, then, that the city's five largest art museums - the Brooklyn Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art - should together hold one of the richest and most varied collections of this extraordinary painter's work.
This volume illustrates every work by Rothko in these great museums in glowing full-color reproductions and, in the process, surveys his entire career. Although Rothko is most famous for his luminous Color-field canvases, he also created early figurative oils and delicate surrealist fantasies in watercolor and oil.

About the Author

Diane Waldman is Deputy Director and Senior Curator at the Guggenheim Museum.