[Seated woman]

Medium
Support
Dimensions
5 x 3 in. (12.5 x 7.5 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
91.43
Collection
Collection of Christopher Rothko. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Remarks
This drawing may relate to a painting of this period believed to be a portrait of Mrs. Irving Tow, a student of Rothko’s at the Young Women’s Hebrew Association of Mount Vernon, New York, where Rothko taught art classes to children and adults [Daily Argus (Mount Vernon, NY), October 1, 1930] (fig. 1).
[Seated woman]
1. Mark Rothko, Untitled (Mrs. Irving Tow), 1937/1938, oil on gesso board, 7 x 5 in., private collection, Illinois, © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko. [Anfam 119]
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