[Figures on a dock]

1986.56.255
Medium
Support
Dimensions
4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm)
Estate/Inventory Number
H 4.4
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.255. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko
Related Works on Paper
[Dock with rowboats]

[Dock with rowboats]

1938/1939

1986.56.244
[Dock with rowboats]

[Dock with rowboats]

1938/1939

1986.56.280
[Rowboats by dock]

[Rowboats by dock]

1938/1939

1986.56.256
[Rowboats on shore]

[Rowboats on shore]

1938/1939

1986.56.239
[Rowboats]

[Rowboats]

1938/1939

1986.56.293
[Figures in a pavilion]

[Figures in a pavilion]

1938/1939

1986.56.234.a
[Figures in a pavilion]

[Figures in a pavilion]

1938/1939

1986.56.231
[Figures in a pavilion]

[Figures in a pavilion]

1938/1939

1986.56.233
[Figures in a pavilion]

[Figures in a pavilion]

1938/1939

1986.56.257
Remarks
The structure in this drawing resembles the dock at Diamond Point, Lake George, New York, with its distinctive pavilion (visible at the right edge of Rothko’s drawing). Rothko and his wife Edith summered near Lake George several times, including stays in 1938 and 1939. This drawing —part of a small series of studies made in the vicinity of the Diamond Point dock (see Related Works on Paper)—almost certainly dates from this period, during which the Rothkos rented an old schoolhouse at Trout Lake, a few miles north of Diamond Point.
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