Chapel paintings
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Mark Rothko: Seeing in the Dark , 2014-04-29
File — Shelf 31, Box: 94, Folder: 97
Identifier: 31.94.97
Abstract
Harry Cooper, Ph.D.
Suggested donation $10 What is the significance of Rothko’s turn to dark, expansive paintings in the 1960s? Do they realize or deny what Rothko called the “inner light” of his art? What was the different role of darkness throughout his previous work? Did Rothko intend to imbue colors like those used in the Rothko Chapel with particular meaning? Looking at both the Chapel works and related single canvases at the National Gallery of Art, Modern Art Curator Harry...
Dates:
Event: 2014-04-29
Mark Rothko: Traveler to Sublime , 2014-03-06
File — Shelf 31, Box: 94, Folder: 83
Identifier: 31.94.83
Abstract
Annie Cohen-Solal, Ph.D.
Suggested donation $10How did Mark Rothko’s complex trajectory between the Russian empire, the United States and back to Europe impact his own pictorial message? In particular, how can we assess his paintings, namely those of the Rothko Chapel, in light of his European birth and of his Jewish heritage? Rothko's biographer Annie Cohen-Solal discusses Mark Rothko’s trajectory in prelude to her forthcoming Rothko biography, to be published in September 2014...
Dates:
Event: 2014-03-06
Menil Community Arts Festival, 2010-03-13
File — Shelf 30, Box: 91, Folder: 11
Identifier: 30.91.11
Abstract
The Rothko Chapel offers two programs as part of the Menil Community Arts Festival.11 a.m.: A Conversation with Houston Chronicle Art Critic Douglas Britt
Houston Chronicle art critic Douglas Britt will discuss the Chapel's suite of fourteen monumental paintings by American painter Mark Rothko.1 p.m.: East/West Improvisational Music by The Language of Peace
Classical Indian vocalist Nanda Banerjee, cellist Max Dyer, and keyboardist/composer John Hardesty form The...
Dates:
Event: 2010-03-13
Re-installation of Paintings , 2000
File — Drawer 86, Folder: 27
Identifier: 86.27
Renovation of Chapel, 2000
File — Drawer 83, Object: PA12
Identifier: 83.PA12
Abstract
Photos showing various stages of renovation, including moving the paintings
Dates:
Event: 2000
Rothko Chapel Paintings after Renovation, 2009-08-27
Item — Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 946
Identifier: 80.6.946
Abstract
High resolution photographs of individual chapel paintings.
Dates:
2009-08-27
Rothko Chapel Paintings Installation and Opening, 1971-01 - 1971-03
Item — Shelf 80, Box: 6, Object: 949
Identifier: 80.6.949
Scope and Contents
CD. Color JPEG photos in two folders. The first folder has shots of the paintings being delivered into the chapel. The second folder has candid photos of events during the opening.
Dates:
Event: 1971-01 - 1971-03
Rothko Chapel Paintings NE, N, NW
Item — Shelf 80, Box: 5, Object: 249
Identifier: 80.5.249
Scope and Contents
one photo (JPEG) showing three paintings
Dates:
1971
Rothko Chapel Panel, 2006-03-15
Item — Shelf 80, Box: 1, Object: 24
Identifier: 80.1.24
Abstract
Photographs by Jim Null
Dates:
2006-03-15
Rothko Chapel Revisited , 2021-06-09
File — Shelf 30, Box: 218, Folder: 23
Abstract
Vimeo Livestream, 7pm CT
Free event with suggested contributions $5-20
Closed captions providedThe Rothko Chapel presented a livestream lecture and conversation with art historian Sheldon Nodelman and Christopher Rothko. In 1997, Nodelman authored Rothko Chapel Paintings: Origin, Structure, Meaning, where he explored the Rothko Chapel as "a masterpiece of twentieth century art and incontestably the greatest work of pictorial installation to date, both dauntingly complex and...
Dates:
Event: 2021-06-09