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Original works by Mark Rothko available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
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
No. 13 (White, Red on Yellow), 1958 (Zoom)
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
13 works by Mark Rothko online
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
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 NEW!
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
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
3 works online
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
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW!
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Yellow Band
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Untitled
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina, Vienna NEW!
Saffron, 1957
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Green on Maroon, 1961
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City NEW!
Untitled, 1944-46
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Untitled, 1953
Pictures from Image Archives:
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
Miscellaneous Sites:
Another Form of Intervention/Studio Cleo
Beloit College Department of Classics
Sacrifice of Iphigenia, 1942
Repository of Abstract Art
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Untitled
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Mark Rothko 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
PBS
"Rothko's Legacy"
Slate Magazine
"Heavenly Rectangles: Mark Rothko's floating abstractions of despair," article by Christopher Benfey
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Rothko's Progress Toward Abstraction Focuses on 1949
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Rothko's Surreal Killer May Have Been Greenberg
Time Magazine
"The Rabbi and the Moving Blur", 1978 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Flash presentation of 15 works, including Rothko's White over Red, 1957
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TateShots: Tate Museum Videos about Art NEW!
Exhibitions: A tour of Tate Modern's recent Rothko show
"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.
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Mark Rothko: A Biography
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas
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Mark Rothko
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The Artist's Reality
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About Rothko
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Mark Rothko: A Retrospective
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Mark Rothko: Works on Paper
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