About the Artwork
Orange, Brown
1963
Mark Rothko
1903-1970
American
Unknown
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)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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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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