Abstract green painting with angular planes, triangular shapes, and radiating striped lines.

Paintings

Agitation of the Archaic

1944

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 35 5/16 × 54 1/4 in. (89.7 × 137.8 cm)
Accession number
85.43.1
Acquired
1985
Credit line
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.
Reproduction credit
© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Mark Rothko, Agitation of the Archaic, 1944. Oil on canvas, overall: 35 5/16 × 54 1/4 in. (89.7 × 137.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc. 85.43.1. © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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