Landscape

Mar 24–Sept 18, 2005

Four horizontal bars, varied in width with soft edges, stack against a deep red background. Three of the bars are a brownish red, while the thickest bar, second from the top, is black.
Four horizontal bars, varied in width with soft edges, stack against a deep red background. Three of the bars are a brownish red, while the thickest bar, second from the top, is black.

Mark Rothko, Four Darks in Red, 1958. Oil on canvas, overall: 101 13/16 × 116 3/8 in. (258.6 × 295.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Schwartz, Mrs. Samuel A. Seaver and Charles Simon 68.9. ©Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Landscape was curated by Donna DeSalvo.

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