Author

Since 1977, Anfam wrote

for diverse magazines, among them: Artforum, Art History; Art

in America; Artlyst; The Art Newspaper; The Brooklyn Rail; 

The Burlington Magazine; and Hyperallergic.

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Mark Rothko

​Anfam was also the author of Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—A Catalogue Raisonné (National Gallery of Art, Washington and Yale University Press, 1998), which received the 1999 and 2000 Mitchell Prize for the History of Art; the 1998 George Wittenborn Memorial Award; and was listed as

a book of the year in the New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Telegraph and The Irish Times.

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Phaidon Press

After nine years at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC preparing the catalogue raisonné of Rothko's works on canvas, Anfam returned to London in 1997 to join Phaidon Press, where he became Commissioning Editor for Fine Art.

 

He remained at Phaidon until 2015 and commissioned numerous books and series, including many titles in

the Art&Ideas list, the Phaidon Focus series, Leonardo (Colour Library series), Painting Today, Sculpture Today, The Music of Painting and Silent Theatre: The Art of Edward Hopper.

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Single-Author Publications

Other single-author publications include Sam Francis in New York: 1958–1960 (Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, 1997); Richard Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White (The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, 2010); Brice Marden: Ru Ware, Marbles, Polke (Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2013); Robert Rauschenberg: Jammers (Gagosian Gallery, London, 2013); Ed & Nancy Kienholz: Berlin/Hope (LA Louver, Los Angeles, 2014); Wayne Thiebaud (White Cube, London, 2017); Pier Paolo Calzolari (White Cube, London, 2018); Joan Mitchell: Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century 1953–1962 (Cheim & Read, New York, 2018); Lee Krasner: The Umber Paintings, 1959–1962 (Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2018).

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Catalogues Raisonné

In addition to his work on the Rothko catalogue raisonné, Anfam was a consulting advisor on the catalogues raisonné for Jack Tworkov and Iberê Camargo. 

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Further Artists

Anfam also wrote essays

on Renate Aller, Milton Avery,

Ali Banisadr, Max Beckmann, Koen van de Broek, Jonas Burgert, John Chamberlain, Piero Dorazio, Carroll Dunham, Jeff Elrod, Zeng Fanzhi, Günther Förg, Stefan Gierowski, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hartung, Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, Yun Hyong-Keun, Anish Kapoor, Norman Lewis, Robert Motherwell, Rod Penner, Elliott Puckette, Ad Reinhardt, Dorothea Rockburne, Clifford Ross, William Scott, David Smith,

Julian Stanczak, Mark Tobey 

and James Turrell.

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