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Mark Rothko Works Online
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Original works by Mark Rothko available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 7 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Painting, 1961
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
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 NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
Untitled, 1949
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
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
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"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
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
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
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Green on Maroon, 1961
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Mark Rothko
Website about Mark Rothko and his paintings
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
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
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Photographs of a couple of Rothko's paintings
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Another Form of Intervention/Studio Cleo
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
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
Multimedia:
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. | |
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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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