An exhibition of Mark Rothkos from the Estate of his first wife, Edith Sachar, will highlight the November season. Eight paintings, two watercolors, drawings and a major Rothko sketchbook will be included, all but one work being exhibited for the first time. The majority of the Rothkos to be shown are the "mythological" works from the early 1940s following just after his 1930s New York scenes and leading into Rothko's surrealist period of the mid 1940s.

A catalogue will accompany the exhibition illustrating all the paintings and watercolors in color with the attached text from the Anne C. Chaves book, Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction, published in 1989 by Yale University Press.

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) married Edith Sachar (1912-1981), a sculptor and designer of jewelry, in 1932 and they were divorced in 1943. Edith Sachar later married George Carson in 1951. While married to Mark Rothko (changed from Marcus Rothkowitz in 1940) Edith Sachar kept her maiden name and all works in the exhibition come from the collection of her family.

This exhibition of Mark Rothko's 1930s and 1940s paintings and works on paper is one of a series the Joan T. Washburn Gallery has organized to reconsider the early works of such major 20th century artists as Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock and David Smith among others.