Text copyright © 2017 by Chronicle Books LLC.

Foreword text copyright © 2015 by Christopher Rothko. Adapted from essays published in Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).

Paintings copyright © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Pages 118–119 constitute a continuation of the copyright page.

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ISBN 9781452156606 (epub, mobi)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970, artist. | Rothko, Christopher, writer of foreword. | Spring, Jenny Moussa, editor. | Bishop, Janet C. Slow looking.
Title: Rothko : the color field paintings / foreword by Christopher Rothko ; essay by Janet Bishop ; picture editor, Jenny Moussa Spring.
Description: San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books LLC, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016052971 | ISBN 9781452156590 (hc)
Subjects: LCSH: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970—Themes, motives. | Color-field painting—United States—Themes, motives.
Classification: LCC ND237.R725 A4 2017 | DDC 759.13—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016052971

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