Figures: Chapter 2 — Bryan Markovitz

Bryan Markovitz

Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals: A Fugitive History of Art and Science by Bryan Markovitz, Ph.D., Brown University

Figures: Chapter 2

Fig. 1, Visitors look onto the courtyard of the Center for the Study of World Religions, c. 1960, Harvard Divinity School, BMS/131.9, Photo: Bradford F. Herzog.

Fig. 2, View of Holyoke Center and Forbes Plaza from Massachusetts Avenue, c. 1960, Photograph, Harvard University Archives, HUV 95 (7-4), © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Fig. 3, View of the Holyoke Center from Mt. Auburn Street. The tenth-floor penthouse dining room is located at the top left corner., c. 1960, Photograph, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, Photo: Phokion Karas.

Fig. 4, Mark Rothko, Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals), 1962, National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.56.632.

Fig. 5, Mark Rothko, Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals, recto), 1962, National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 91.79.

Fig. 5, Mark Rothko, Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals, verso), 1962, National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 91.79.

Fig. 6, Mark Rothko, Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals), 1962, National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, H 23.1, 1986.56.631.

Fig. 7, Mark Rothko, Untitled (Subway), 1937, National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.43.113.

Fig. 8, Third mural from the triclinium, Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy, public domain.

Fig. 9, Mark Rothko, Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals), 1962, Harvard Art Museums, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, 1986.630.1.

Fig. 10, Michelangelo, Ricetto, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy, public domain.

Fig. 11, Mark Rothko 1485 First Avenue Studio, New York, 1964, Photograph, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation, 2008.08.29, © The Estate of Dan Budnik, Photo: Dan Budnik from the series “Picturing Artists.”

Fig. 12, First Installation of Panel One at the Holyoke Center, December 1962, Photograph, Harvard Art Museums Archives, © President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University Art Museums), Photo Credit: Elizabeth Jones.

Fig. 13, Mark Rothko receiving his congratulatory card at the Holyoke Center with his wife Mary Alice, January 1963, Photograph, Harvard Art Museums Archives, © President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University Art Museums), Photo Credit: Elizabeth Jones.

Fig. 14, Mark Rothko taking in the view of Cambridge with Estelle Leontief in the Holyoke Center penthouse, January 1963, Photograph, Harvard Art Museums Archives, © President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University Art Museums), Photo Credit: Elizabeth Jones.

Fig. 15, Mark Rothko with John Coolidge in the Holyoke Center penthouse, January 1963, Photograph, Harvard Art Museums Archives, © President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University Art Museums), Photo Credit: Elizabeth Jones.

Fig. 16, Mark Rothko enjoying his celebratory cake with Marjorie Cohn at the Holyoke Center, January 1963, Photograph, Harvard Art Museums Archives, © President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University Art Museums), Photo Credit: Elizabeth Jones.

Fig. 17, Before: Mark Rothko, Panel One (Harvard Mural Triptych), 1962, Egg tempera and distemper on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of the Artist, 2011.638.5 © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christpher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Digitally restored scan of a 1964 Ektachrome transparency.

Fig. 18, After: Mark Rothko, Panel One (Harvard Mural Triptych), 1962, Egg tempera and distemper on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of the Artist, 2011.638.5 © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christpher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Digitally restored scan of a 1964 Ektachrome transparency.

Fig. 19, Before: Mark Rothko, Panel Two (Harvard Mural Triptych), 1962, Egg tempera and distemper on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of the Artist, 2011.638.5 © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christpher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Digitally restored scan of a 1964 Ektachrome transparency.

Fig. 20, After: Mark Rothko, Panel Two (Harvard Mural Triptych), 1962, Egg tempera and distemper on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of the Artist, 2011.638.5 © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christpher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Digitally restored scan of a 1964 Ektachrome transparency.

Fig. 21, Before: Mark Rothko, Panel Three (Harvard Mural Triptych), 1962, Egg tempera and distemper on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of the Artist, 2011.638.5 © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christpher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Digitally restored scan of a 1964 Ektachrome transparency.

Fig. 22, After: Mark Rothko, Panel Three (Harvard Mural Triptych), 1962, Egg tempera and distemper on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of the Artist, 2011.638.5 © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christpher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Digitally restored scan of a 1964 Ektachrome transparency.

Fig. 23, Before: Mark Rothko, Panel Four (Harvard Murals Triptych), 1, Egg tempera and distemper on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of the Artist, 2011.638.5 © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christpher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Digitally restored scan of a 1964 Ektachrome transparency.

Fig. 24, After: Mark Rothko, Panel Four (Harvard Murals Triptych), 1, Egg tempera and distemper on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of the Artist, 2011.638.5 © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christpher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Digitally restored scan of a 1964 Ektachrome transparency.

Fig. 25, Before: Mark Rothko, Panel Five (Harvard Murals), Egg tempera and distemper on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of the Artist, 2011.638.5 © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christpher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Digitally restored scan of a 1964 Ektachrome transparency.

Fig. 26, After: Mark Rothko, Panel Five (Harvard Murals), Egg tempera and distemper on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University, Gift of the Artist, 2011.638.5 © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christpher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Digitally restored scan of a 1964 Ektachrome transparency.

Fig. 27, Josep Lluís Sert and Harvard administrators inspecting the first installation of the Rotrhko Murals, December 1962, Photograph, Harvard Art Museums Archives, © President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University Art Museums), Photo Credit: Elizabeth Jones.

Fig. 28, Final Installation of the triptych at the Holyoke Center, December 1962, Photograph, Harvard Art Museums Archives, © President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University Art Museums).

Fig. 29, Final Installation of Panel Five at the Holyoke Center, 1963, Photograph, Harvard Art Museums Archives, © President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University Art Museums).

Links to figures for all chapters:

Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4

Fig. 30, Evening dinner in the penthouse dining room, Holyoke Center, circa 1963, Photograph, Harvard Art Museums Archives, © President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University Art Museums).