Mark Rothko

No. 4 (Untitled)
1953

A vertical abstract painting featuring a large, soft-edged yellow rectangle dominating the center, bordered by a thin orange stripe and a broad black horizontal band at the bottom, with a faint orange stripe below it, all against a pale background.

A vertical abstract painting featuring a large, soft-edged yellow rectangle dominating the center, bordered by a thin orange stripe and a broad black horizontal band at the bottom, with a faint orange stripe below it, all against a pale background.

Not on view

Date
1953

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 105 11/16 × 50 3/4in. (268.4 × 128.9 cm)

Accession number
85.43.2

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
©Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/896

Exhibitions

Highlights from the Permanent Collection: From Pollock to Today

Dec 7, 2000–Feb 10, 2002

Mark Rothko
7 works in the collection

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