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Mark Rothko, White Cloud, 1956

White Cloud was included in Rothko’s 1978 retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and later travelled to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Los Angeles Museum of Art. At the time this exhibition was regarded as the most complete survey of his work to date, and hung with other works from his wide ranging oeuvre, White Cloud stood out as powerful example of the artist’s expressive use of color, on which the critic Hilton Kramer commented at the time: “Color itself was now the to be the vessel of magic. And it is color–soft, luminous and cloud like–that lends an air of enchantment to the exhibition, and captivates the eye” (H. Kramer, “Rothko-Art As Religious Faith,” The New York Times, 12, November, 1978, p. A1).