No. 3 Artist: Mark Rothko (American, born Russia, 1903–1970, D.F.A. (Hon.) 1969)

1967

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on unprimed canvas

Dimensions

81 × 75 15/16 in. (205.7 × 192.9 cm)

Credit Line

Katharine Ordway Collection

Accession Number

1980.12.23

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Estate of the artist; sold through Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York, to Katherine Ordway [1899-1979], New York, January 30, 1968; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1980
Bibliography
  • American Art: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2023), 244–45, no. 117, ill.
  • Sequoia Miller and John Stuart Gordon, The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015–16), 64, fig. 53.
  • Matthew Monteith, "The Explainers," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2013): 60.
  • Joachim Pissarro, Then and Now and Later: Art since 1945 at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 36.
  • Lesley K. Baier, The Katharine Ordway Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983), 70–71, 73, 103, no. 44.
  • Teruo Fujieda Mizue, "Special Feature: Mark Rothko," Mizue 888 (March 1979): 5–57, ill.
Object copyright
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

Signed

Signed verso l.r. "MARK ROTHKO 1967"

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