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No. 13 (White, Red on Yellow)

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1958
Accession Number: 1985.63.5

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No. 21

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1949
Accession Number: 1985.63.4

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No. 3

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1953
Accession Number: 2006.32.55

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Untitled

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1949
Accession Number: 1985.63.3

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Untitled

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1954
Accession Number: 1986.257.3

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Untitled (White, Black, Rust, on Brown)

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1968
Accession Number: 2007.327

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Untitled

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: ca. 1944–46
Accession Number: 1985.63.7

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Untitled

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: ca. 1945–46
Accession Number: 1985.63.8

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Untitled (Brown and Gray)

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1969
Accession Number: 1985.63.9

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Untitled

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1967
Accession Number: 1985.63.1

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Untitled (Brown and Gray)

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1969
Accession Number: 1985.63.10

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Untitled

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1967
Accession Number: 1985.63.2

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Untitled

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: ca. 1945–46
Accession Number: 1985.63.6

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Untitled

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: ca. 1944–45
Accession Number: 1986.257.1

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Untitled

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: ca. 1944–46
Accession Number: 1986.257.2

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No. 16

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1960
Accession Number: 1971.14

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Untitled

Mark Rothko (American (born Russia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)

Date: 1964
Accession Number: 1995.545

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Mark Rothko

Dena (American, born Finland)

Date: 1965
Accession Number: 1972.711.16

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Yosemite IV

Natvar Bhavsar (Indian, born 1934)

Date: 1980
Accession Number: 1980.227

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Chance Encounter at 3 A.M.

Red Grooms (American, born Nashville, Tennessee, 1937)

Date: 1984
Accession Number: 1984.194

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Large Blue Horizontal

Ilya Bolotowsky (American, St. Petersburg 1907–1981 New York, New York)

Date: 1975
Accession Number: 1976.182

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Winjana Gorge, Kimberleys, I

Fred Williams (Australian, 1927–1982)

Date: 1981
Accession Number: 1992.312.4

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Concord

Barnett Newman (American, New York 1905–1970 New York)

Date: 1949
Accession Number: 68.178

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Landscape

Robert Goodnough (American, Cortland, New York 1917–2010 White Plains, New York)

Date: 1952
Accession Number: 2006.32.19a, b

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Woman

Willem de Kooning (American (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1904–1997 East Hampton, New York)

Date: 1944
Accession Number: 1984.613.2

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The Street

Philip Guston (American, Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)

Date: 1977
Accession Number: 1983.457

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Attic

Willem de Kooning (American (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1904–1997 East Hampton, New York)

Date: 1949
Accession Number: 1982.16.3

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Nijinsky

Franz Kline (American, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1910–1962 New York)

Date: 1950
Accession Number: 2006.32.28

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A Painting as an Experience

Teen Advisory Group Member Maleficent Twemlow (a.k.a. Anna) discusses a quotation by the artist Mark Rothko and its relation to nonrepresentational art.

Curatorial Departments

Modern and Contemporary Art

The Metropolitan Museum has collected and exhibited work by living artists since its founding in 1870. Today, the department's holdings comprise more than twelve thousand works of art across a broad range of media from 1900 to the present.

MetPublications

Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1985–1986

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a foreword by Philippe de Montebello (1986)

Nearly every year since 1975, the Metropolitan Museum has published a selection of its notable acquisitions. This publication has proved to be an efficient vehicle for bringing to the public's attention the most important works of art added to the collections. However, the increasing cost of art on the one hand, together with limited funds for such purchases on the other, have inescapably diminished the number of truly noteworthy acquisitions. Concomitantly, the publication has become a forum for the discussion of artworks that—while filling important gaps in various departmental collection...

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Atta Kwami (Ghanaian, b. 1956)

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Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Messinger, Lisa Mintz (1992)

Abstract Expressionist works on paper from the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are presented in this volume, which documents the wealth of the Museum's holdings in that area. Many of them are published here for the first time, and several are recent additions to the collection. All are illustrated in full-page color reproductions that show the nuances of each work in great detail.

The Abstract Expressionists are best known for their paintings and sculptures, and virtually all of the many publications about these artists concentrate on those large-scale works. Th...

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Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works

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Oberlin's Masterpieces on View at Metropolitan Museum

Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is one of the finest college or university collections in the United States, serving as an invaluable educational resource for aspiring art scholars. While the museum is closed in 2010 for renovations, 20 of their masterpieces—19 paintings and one sculpture—are on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for five months in the special exhibition Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks at the Met. These include the great Ter Brugghen painting Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene (one of the most important North Baroque paintings in the U.S.), Cézanne's Viaduct at l'Estaque, Kirchner's Self-Portrait as a Soldier, and a striking Kirchner sculpture. Each of these works is integrated into the Metropolitan Museum's excellent collection, creating new, provocative juxtapositions.

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Metropolitan Museum to Present Major Gift of Abstract Expressionist and Modern Works from Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman in Fall Exhibition

One of the preeminent collections of Abstract Expressionism, The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection was given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006, contributing significantly to the Museum's holdings in modern art. To celebrate the gift, Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art — on view from September 18, 2007, to March 2, 2008 —presents 55 works assembled by one of the most prescient and astute collectors of the mid-20th century.

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CLAY INTO ART: SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS

Clay into Art: Selections from the Contemporary Ceramics Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art brings together 61 ceramic pieces from the Museum's collection that capture an unprecedented period of creativity in ceramics and demonstrate the dramatic breadth of styles that emerged during the latter half of this century. The exhibition will include works by an international group of ceramists, from conceptually traditional vessel forms such as teapots, bowls and vases, to unconventionally monumental sculptures. This is the fourth exhibition in the Department of 20th Century Art's continuing series of shows that feature works executed in one medium.

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Classic 1930s Street Photographs of New York City on View at Metropolitan Museum September 23

In the late 1930s, Rudy Burckhardt—then a recent émigré to America from Switzerland—photographed his adopted hometown of New York City, and immediately made some of the most lyrical, witty, and poetic images of the city ever created. New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937–1940, opening September 23 at the Metropolitan Museum, will present in its entirety Burckhardt's unique, handmade album of 67 classic images of sidewalks, outdoor advertising, and pedestrians, selected and sequenced by Burckhardt in 1940 and acquired by the Museum in 1972.

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Sheena Wagstaff to Head Metropolitan Museum’s New Modern and Contemporary Art Department

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Philip Guston

The American painter Philip Guston (American, b. Canada, 1913-1980) will be the subject of a major retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 27, 2003, through January 4, 2004. The exhibition will include more than 75 paintings and drawings dating from 1930, when he was 17, to 1980, the year of his death. Beginning with his childhood fascination with popular American comic strips, through mural painting laden with political imagery, to easel painting and a burgeoning interest in, advancement of, and ultimate disenchantment with abstraction and Abstract Expressionism, through his invention of a highly controversial figurative mode of painting and drawing that influenced younger artists, Guston courageously changed styles according to his beliefs and in response to social and political issues of the day.

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Sean Scully: Wall of Light – Celebrated Artist's First Major Solo Museum Exhibition in New York – Features His Most Important Series to Date

The Wall of Light series by celebrated artist Sean Scully (born 1945) will be the focus of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 26, 2006, through January 14, 2007. Sean Scully: Wall of Light will showcase the artist's most important series to date and highlight his mastery of color, light, gesture, and range of emotional and narrative themes. Scully works and exhibits throughout the world, yet this is his first major solo museum exhibition in New York. Featured are more than 50 works in the Wall of Light series — some 20 of which are large-scale oil paintings — that Scully has created in recent years, first inspired by his travels to Mexico.

Exhibitions

Sean Scully: Wall of Light – Celebrated Artist's First Major Solo Museum Exhibition in New York – Features His Most Important Series to Date

The Wall of Light series by celebrated artist Sean Scully (born 1945) will be the focus of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 26, 2006, through January 15, 2007. Sean Scully: Wall of Light will showcase the artist's most important series to date and highlight his mastery of color, light, gesture, and range of emotional and narrative themes. Scully works and exhibits throughout the world, yet this is his first major solo museum exhibition in New York. Featured are 60 works in the Wall of Light series — some 20 of which are large-scale oil paintings — that Scully has created in recent years, first inspired by his travels to Mexico.

Exhibitions

SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS SEPTEMBER — DECEMBER 2006

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SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2007

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SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS MAY – AUGUST 2007

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SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS - JANUARY–APRIL 2008

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