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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Note to the Reader | |
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| Rothko's Writings on Art | |
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| "New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers," 1934 | |
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| "Scribble Book," ca. 1934 | |
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| Sketchbook, ca. 1934 | |
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| The Ten: Whitney Dissenters, 1938 | |
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| "A comparative analysis," ca. 1941 | |
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| "The ideal teacher," ca. 1941 | |
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| "Indigenousness," ca. 1941 | |
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| "The satisfaction of the creative impulse," ca. 1941 | |
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| Manuscript drafts of a letter to the editor by Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, 1943 | |
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| Rothko and Gottlieb's letter to the editor, 1943 | |
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| "The Portrait and the Modern Artist," by Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, 1943 | |
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| Comments on The Omen of the Eagle, 1943 | |
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| Brief autobiography, ca. 1945 | |
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| Letter to Emily Genauer, 1945 | |
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| "I adhere to the reality of things," 1945 | |
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| Personal statement, 1945 | |
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| Letter to the editor, 1945 | |
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| Letter to Barnett Newman, 1945 | |
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| Introduction to First Exhibition Paintings: Clyfford Still, 1946 | |
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| Letter to Barnett Newman, June 1946 | |
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| Letter to Barnett Newman, August 1946 | |
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| Letter to Barnett Newman, 1947 | |
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| Letter to Herbert Ferber, 1947 | |
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| Letter to Clay Spohn, 1947 | |
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| "The Ides of Art: The Attitudes of Ten Artists on Their Art and Contemporaneousness," 1947 | |
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| "The romantics were prompted," 1947 | |
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| Letter to Clay Spohn, February 1948 | |
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| Letter to Clay Spohn, May 1948 | |
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| Letter to Barnett Newman, 1949 | |
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| Letter to Clay Spohn, 1949 | |
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| "Statement on His Attitude in Painting," 1949 | |
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| Letter to Barnett Newman, April 1950 | |
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| Letter to Barnett Newman, June 1950 | |
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| Letter to Barnett Newman, July 1950 | |
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| Letter to Barnett Newman, August 7, 1950 | |
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| Letter to Barnett Newman, August 1950 | |
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| "How to Combine Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture," 1951 | |
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| Notes from an interview by William Seitz, 1952 | |
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| Letter to Herbert Ferber, August 1952 | |
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| Letter to Herbert Ferber, September 1952 | |
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| Letter to Lloyd Goodrich, 1952 | |
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| Notes from an interview by William Seitz, March 1953 | |
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| Notes from an interview by William Seitz, April 1953 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, May 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, July 14, 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, July 28, 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, ca. August 1954 | |
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| Letter to Petronel Lukens, August 1954 | |
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| Letter to Petronel Lukens, September 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, September 20, 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, September 25, 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, September 27, 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, October 20, 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, October 23, 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, November 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, December 1954 | |
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| Letter to Petronel Lukens, December 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, ca. 1954 | |
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| "Whenever one begins to speculate," ca. 1954 | |
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| "Relation to one's own past," ca. 1954 | |
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| "Space in painting," ca. 1954 | |
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| Letter to Katharine Kuh, 1955 | |
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| Letter to Herbert Ferber, July 7, 1955 | |
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| Letter to Herbert Ferber, July 11, 1955 | |
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| Letter to Lawrence Calcagno, 1956 | |
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| Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956 | |
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| Letter to Herbert Ferber, 1957 | |
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| Letter to Rosalind Irvine, 1957 | |
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| Letter to the editor, 1957 | |
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| Address to Pratt Institute, 1958 | |
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| Letter to Ida Kohlmeyer, ca. 1958 | |
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| John Fischer, "The Easy Chair: Mark Rothko, Portrait of the Artist as an Angry Man," 1970 | |
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| Letter to Herbert Ferber and Bernard Reis, 1959 | |
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| Letter to Elise Asher and Stanley Kunitz, 1959 | |
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| Letter to Milton Avery, 1960 | |
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| Notecards, ca. 1950-1960 | |
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| Letter to the Whitechapel Gallery, 1961 | |
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| "A Talk with Mark Rothko," 1961 | |
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| Letter to Herbert Ferber, 1962 | |
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| Tribute to Milton Avery, 1965 | |
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| Letter to Bernard Reis, 1966 | |
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| Letter to Norman Reid, 1966 | |
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| Letter to Herbert Ferber, July 7, 1967 | |
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| Letter to Herbert Ferber, July 19, 1967 | |
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| Letter to Elise Asher and Stanley Kunitz, 1967 | |
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| Acceptance of Yale University honorary doctorate, 1969 | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Index | |