Sketches of “Max,” Mark Rothko’s “No. 19,” and William Baziotes’ “Moonstruck”
- Medium
- Black ink on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 27.9 x 21.5 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- Archival material
Tags
American
About
Index 5 February 1950. For index reference, see Finding Aid [nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUAM:art00006]. See related oil Max #1, 1949 (Davis Catalogue Raisonné‚ no. 1656); oil Max #2, 1949 (Davis Catalogue Raisonné‚ no. 1657); oil by Mark Rothko, No. 19, 1949, collection Art Institute of Chicago: Anonymous gift (1957.308); and oil by William Baziotes, Moonstruck, date unknown. The Baziotes and Rothko paintings are illustrated in Herbert Matter, "Fifty-three Living American Artists: Photographed by Herbert Matter in the Manner of the Seventeenth-Century Painter Teniers" Vogue 115, no. 2 (Feb. 1, 1950), pp. 152-54. Also illustrated in this article is Davis's oil Salt Shaker, 1931 (Davis Catalogue Raisonné‚ no. 1560). The Baziotes painting was identified by Emily A. Schuchardt.
