Mark Rothko

American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent, 1903–1970

Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American abstract expressionism movement of modern art.

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Rothko Chapel interior, Houston

1971

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Seagram Murals, on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

Jean-Pierre Dalbéra · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

No. 24 (Brown, Black and Blue)

on view at SFMOMA, San Francisco

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Rothko room at Tate Modern, London

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Rothko Chapel, Houston

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Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

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