Collection Orange, Brown

Orange, Brown

Mark Rothko American, 1903-1970
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Orange, Brown
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About the Artwork

Orange, Brown

1963

Mark Rothko

1903-1970

American

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Oil on canvas

Unframed: 89 1/2 × 70 inches (227.3 × 177.8 cm) Framed: 90 1/8 × 69 1/8 × 2 1/2 inches (228.9 × 175.6 × 6.4 cm)

Paintings

Contemporary Art after 1950

Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund

65.8

Restricted

Markings

Signed, verso, center right: MARK ROTHKO | 1963

Inscribed on upper horizontal crossbar member: #202 M. Rothko Signed and dated, verso, center right: MARK ROTHKO | 1963

Provenance

1963-1965, (Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York, New York, USA);
1965-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Mark Rothko. Exh. cat., Marlborough New London Gallery. London, 1964, no. 6 (ill.).

The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, no. 38 (ill.).

Frederick J. Cummings and Charles H. Elam, eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 23 (ill.), p. 182 (ill.).

The Great Decade of American Abstraction; Modernist Art 1960 to 1970. Exh. cat., the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston, 1974, no. 45, p. 65 (ill.).

“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, May 20, 1979, p. 17 (ill.).

The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1987, no. 52, p. 37 (ill.).

Message 1995: Masterpieces of Modern Art from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Toyota Municipal Museum of Art. Toyota City, Japan, 1995, no. 64, p. 161 (ill.).

Die Epoche der Moderne: Kunst im 20 Jahrhundert. Exh. cat., Martin-Gropius-Bau. Berlin, 1997, no. 180, p. 283 (ill.).

Anfam, David. Mark Rothko, the Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonne. New Haven, 1998, p. 600, no. 752 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Mark Rothko, Orange, Brown, 1963, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 65.8.

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