Editing Mark Rothko (section)

===Harvard Murals===
Rothko received a second mural commission project, this time for a room of paintings for the penthouse of Harvard University's [[Holyoke Center]]. He made 22 sketches, from which ten wall-sized paintings on canvas were painted, six were brought to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and only five were hung: a triptych on one wall and opposite two individual panels. His aim was to create an environment for a public place. Harvard President [[Nathan Pusey]], following an explanation of the religious symbology of the [[Triptych]], had the paintings hung in January 1963, and later shown at the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim]]. During installation, Rothko found the paintings to be compromised by the room's lighting. Despite the installation of fiberglass shades, the paintings were all removed by 1979 and, due to the fugitive nature of some of the red pigments, in particular [[History of red|lithol red]], were placed in dark storage and displayed only periodically.{{sfn|Breslin|1993|p=445–42}} The murals were on display from November 16, 2014, to July 26, 2015, in the newly renovated Harvard Art Museums, for which the fading of the pigments has been compensated by using an innovative color projection system to illuminate the paintings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shea |first=Andrea |date=May 20, 2014 |title=Harvard's Famously Damaged Rothko Paintings 'Restored' With Light |url=http://artery.wbur.org/2014/05/20/harvard-rothkos |access-date=July 24, 2014 |publisher=The ARTery}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Edgers |first=Geoff |date=May 20, 2014 |title=Harvard's Rothko murals to be seen in new light with revolutionary new projection system |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2014/05/20/harvard-rothko-murals-seen-new-light-with-revolutionary-new-projection-system/UspSbL0csFjeM2cwSflKON/story.html |access-date=July 24, 2014}}</ref><ref>Stenger, J., Khandekar, N., Raskar, R., Cuellar, S., Mohan, A. and Gschwind, R., ‘Conservation of a room: a treatment proposal for Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals,’ Studies in Conservation, 61(6), 2016, 348–361</ref><ref>Stenger, J., Khandekar, N., Wilker, A., Kallsen, K., Kirby, D.P. and Eremin, K., ‘The making of Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals,’ Studies in Conservation, 61(6), 2016, 331–347.</ref>