Mark Rothko manuscripts and sketchbook, circa 1935-1943 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:One cloth bound volume contains 79 pen and ink drawings by Rothko, and dates to the late 1930s. It is stamped in gold: "Marshall Jenkins" on the front, and "American Home Library" on the spine. The drawings in this sketchbook show Rothko's early artistic development and include pen and ink drawings depicting urban scenes, still lifes and figure studies. Another cloth bound book (entitled "Scribble book") contains 50 pages of handwritten notes and drafts for a manual (both theoretical and practical) on teaching children's art. Some critics view the Scribble book as the source of a Center Academy talk given by Rothko in 1938. 11 manuscript pages (in Rothko's hand) and one typed page, dated 7 June 1943, comprise drafts of a letter addressed to Edward Alden Jewell (critic at the New York Times) and jointly composed by Rothko, Adolf Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman