Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition of 115 paintings on canvas and on paper from virtually every period of the artist's career. Contains four essays on color, darkness, surface and space in Rothko's work by John Gage, Barbara Novak and Brian O'Doherty, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, and Jeffrey Weiss. There is also a chronology by Jessica Stewart and interviews on Rothko's legacy between Jeffrey Weiss and Mark Rosenthal and five artists: Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman and George Segal

• Catalogue
• John Gage
• Barbara Novak and Brian O'Doherty
• Carol Mancusi - Ungaro
• Jeffery Weiss
• Jessica Stewart
• Mark Rosenthal and Jeffrey Weiss Rothko: color as subject Rothko's dark paintings: tragedy and void Material and immaterial surface: the paintings of Rotkho Rothko's unknown space Chronology Interview