The following notice appears at the request of the artist's heirs: Works by Mark Rothko © 1998 Christopher Rothko and Kate Rothko Prizel.Ĭurator: Jeffrey Weiss, associate curator, 20th-century art, National Gallery of Art.
The exhibition traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 17–November 29, 1998, and to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, January 14–April 18, 1999. This web feature originally was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Mark Rothko, on view at the National Gallery of Art from May 3 to August 16, 1998. (Quotation courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago) And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space." I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted. This may well give the key to the observer of the ideal relationship between himself and the rest of the pictures. "I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture. By saturating the room with the feeling of the work, the walls are defeated and the poignancy of each single work. I have on occasion successfully dealt with this problem by tending to crowd the show rather than making it spare. This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. "Since my pictures are large, colorful, and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls. In 1954 Rothko asked that his largest pictures be installed "so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture." He said:
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