1960, Mark Rothko, Untitled -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Rothko began exploring this new version of his classic format on paper in 1959. It features one large, soft-edged central field bracketed by two slimmer ones, like a window with a lintel above and a sill below. It may have been prompted by the blind interior windows and blank walls of Michelangelo's vestibule of the Laurentian Library, Florence, which Rothko visited in the 1950s. He cited it as a source for his Seagram murals.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.
1960, Mark Rothko, Untitled -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Rothko began exploring this new version of his classic format on paper in 1959. It features one large, soft-edged central field bracketed by two slimmer ones, like a window with a lintel above and a sill below. It may have been prompted by the blind interior windows and blank walls of Michelangelo's vestibule of the Laurentian Library, Florence, which Rothko visited in the 1950s. He cited it as a source for his Seagram murals.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.