Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas

by David Anfam, Mark Rothko

Originally published in 1998 and still in print, this quintessential volume presents an overview of Mark Rothko’s stunning corpus of paintings on canvas and panel. With all works reproduced in color, the book includes the images for which Rothko is most famous—the large, hypnotic, poignant fields of color—along with almost 400 additional paintings that are far less well known and reveal an artist who was attuned by turns to realism, expressionism, surrealism, and the avant-garde issues of his era.

"Far and away the best monograph ever written on Rothko."—Yve-Alain Bois, Artforum

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Genres: Art

708 pages, Hardcover

First published September 10, 1998

Reviews

[Tim Nowotny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clearly this is no substitute for seeing Rothko's large paintings in real life. But it is a nice collection of his works that enables you to compare them against each other. I like that there is so little comment

[Peter Nagels · Rating 5 out of 5]

Once you have this massive book, you’ll be in Rothko heaven.

[Jean d'Arp · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the complete, best ever catalogue raisonné of the artist.