Mark Rothko art links 

Original works by Mark Rothko available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
3 works online

Mark Rothko at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
19 works online when last checked

Mark Rothko at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
248 works by Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Online exhibit Mark Rothko: His Life and Works

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2 works by Rothko

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Untitled No. 11, 1963, 1963 (Zoom)

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Sacrifice, 1946

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Sacrifice, 1946

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
7 works online

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Untitled

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Orange and Yellow, 1956

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Untitled

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Syrian Bull

Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Number 207 (Red over Dark Blue on Dark Gray), 1961

Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Untitled (Red over Brown), 1967

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)  

Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Untitled

Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)  

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire

Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese)  

Krannert Art Museum, Illinois
Number 13, 1949

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "R"

Mark Rothko in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Green, Red, Blue

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
No.37 (Red)

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)  

Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Yellow Band

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
Untitled

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Untitled, ca.1945

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Number 24 (Untitled), 1951

The Albertina, Vienna
Saffron, 1957

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Green on Maroon, 1961

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
Unidentified paintings from a 2003 exhibition; the fourth is Rothko's Untitled, 1953

PBase Photo Sharing
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Photographs of a couple of Rothko's paintings

USC Annenberg School for Communication

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Another Form of Intervention/Studio Cleo

Repository of Abstract Art

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Untitled

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Mark Rothko  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Rothko: The Year 1949 - A Painter's Progress

FAD - art fast news

New York Magazine
"A theater critic and an art critic debate a play about Mark Rothko", by Jerry Saltz

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)  

PBS
"Rothko's Legacy"

Slate Magazine
"Heavenly Rectangles: Mark Rothko's floating abstractions of despair," article by Christopher Benfey

The Art Story

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"The ghost in the gallery", 2001 article by Adrian Searle

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Every single thing counts", 2008 review by Adrian Searle

The New York Observer
"Rothko's Progress Toward Abstraction Focuses on 1949", article by Hilton Kramer

The New York Observer
"Rothko's Surreal Killer May Have Been Greenberg", article by Hilton Kramer

The Village Voice
"Mark Rothko at the Whitney Museum of American Art", 1998 review by Peter Schjeldahl

Time Magazine
"The Rabbi and the Moving Blur", 1978 article by Robert Hughes

 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Flash presentation of 15 works, including Rothko's White over Red, 1957
(click "explore 15 works" when you get past the intro)

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Mark Rothko: A Biography search inside Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas search inside Mark Rothko search inside The Artist's Reality search inside About Rothko look inside Mark Rothko: A Retrospective look inside Mark Rothko: Works on Paper