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Mark Rothko

(American, 1903–1970)

untitled, study related to “sacrifice of iphigenia” (recto) study related to “the omen” (verso) by mark rothko

Mark Rothko

Untitled, Study related to “Sacrifice of Iphigenia” (recto) Study related to “The Omen” (verso), 1942–1943

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untitled by mark rothko

Mark Rothko

Untitled, ca. 1942

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untitled (recto-verso sketch) by mark rothko

Mark Rothko

Untitled (recto-verso sketch), 1942–1943

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Biography

Timeline

1903
Born Marcus Rothkowitz on September 25, in Dvinsk, Russia
1921 - 1923
Moved to the United States and attended Yale University, New Haven, CT on a scholarship
1924
Moved to New York and studied briefly at the Art Students League
1936 - 1937
Created paintings for the WPA Federal Art Project from 1936 to 1937
1947 - 1949
Taught at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco
1948
Founded the short-lived Subjects of the Artist school in New York with William Baziotes, David Hare, and Robert Motherwell
1970
Took his own life February 25, in his New York studio

Exhibitions

2016
Mark Rothko Exhibitions in 2016:
Rothko: Dark Palette, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Mark Rothko Exhibitions in 2015:
Mark Rothko: A Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Mark Rothko Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Hangaram Art Museum, South Korea
2014
Mark Rothko Exhibitions in 2014:
Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Mark Rothko, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands
Tragic and Timeless: The Art of Mark Rothko, Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
Mark Rothko: The Watercolors 1941–1947, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Mark Rothko Exhibitions in 2012:
Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, September 14, 2012–January 6, 1913. Travels to: Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, February 1–May 26, 2013; as Figure to Field: Mark Rothko in the 1940s, Denver Art Museum, June 23–September 29, 2013; as Mark Rothko in the 1940s: The Decisive Decade, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, October 25, 2012–February 9, 2014.
Mark Rothko, Portland Art Museum, OR
Mark Rothko: Selections from the National Gallery of Art, Academy Art Museum, Easton, ML
2011
Mark Rothko Exhibitions in 2011:
Mark Rothko: Seagram Murals, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mark Rothko: Perceptions of Being, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Rothko in Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2010
Mark Rothko Exhibitions in 2010:
Mark Rothko, Into an Unknown World: 1949–1969, Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
In the Tower: Mark Rothko, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2008 - 2009
Sept. 26 - Feb. 1, "ROTHKO", Tate Modern, London, England
2003 - 2007
Oct. 12 - Aug. 12, "Mark Rothko, The Mural Projects", National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1987
Tate Gallery, London, England (solo)
1984
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (toured the United States, 1984-86) (solo)

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
Anderson Collection Museum at Stanford University, California
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kawamura Memorial Art Museum, Sakura, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
The Menil Collection, Houston
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, Massachusetts
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Literature

2017
De Chassey, Éric. L’abstraction avec ou sans raisons. Éditions Gallimard, 2017: 66, 195, illustrated; Nippe, Christine and Christiane Wedemann. 50 Modern Artists You Should Know. Munich, London and New York: Prestel, 2017 138–141, illustrated.
2016
Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism (exhibition catalogue). London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2016; Agee, William C. Modern Art in America. London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2016: 198–9, 227–9, illustrated; Getlein, Mark and Annabel Howard. Art Visionaries. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2016: 116–9, illustrated; Gramge, Susan. Mark Rothko: Break into the Light. London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016; Pasti, Carolina. A Life with Artists: Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof. Texts by Richard Armstrong, Tom Freudenheim, Carol Goldberg, Suzanne Landau et al. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publication, 2016: 75, illustrated; Paths to the Absolute: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, Newman, Pollock, Rothko and Still (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Emmanuel Di Donna and Mark Rosenthal. New York: Di Donna Galleries, 2016; Rothko: Dark Palette (exhibition catalogue). New York: Pace Gallery, 2016; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360°: Views on the Collection. Edited by Judy Bloch and Suzanne Stein. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016: 124–5, illustrated; Tate Modern: The Handbook. Edited by Matthew Gale. London: Tate Publishing, 2016: 278, illustrated.
2015
The Botticelli Renaissance (exhibition catalogue). Berlin, London and Munich: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Victoria and Albert Museum and Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2015: 127, illustrated; Cohen-Solal, Annie. Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015; Greene, Alison de Lima. Mark Rothko: An Essential Reader (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Harry Cooper, Douglas MacAgy, Hubert Grehan, et al. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 2015; Mark Rothko: Uit de Collectie van de National Gallery of Art Washington (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Franz-W. Kaiser, Harry Cooper and Joost Zwagerman, et al. Den Haag, The Netherlands: Gemeentemuseum, 2015; Miller, Dana, ed. Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection. Text by Adam D. Weinberg. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2015: 330, illustrated; Miller, Sequoia. The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery (exhibition catalogue). Text by John Stuart Gordon. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015; Rothko, Christopher. Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015.
2014
A Family Affair: Modern and Contemporary American Art from the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Texts by Gwen Allen, David Cateforis and Evelyn C. Hankins, etc. Stanford, California; New York: The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, 2014: 93, 103, illustrated; Baum, Kelly. Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Hal Foster, Susan Stewart and Eleanor Stoltzfus. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014: 94–5, illustrated; Cooper, Harry. Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection (exhibition catalogue). Washington, D.C. and San Francisco: National Gallery of Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2014: 102–3, illustrated; Make it New: Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950–1975 (exhibition catalogue). Williamstown: The Clark Art Institute, 2014: 58–59, illustrated; Mark Rothko: Works on Paper 1941–1947 (exhibition catalogue). Text by James Lawrence. New York: Pace Gallery, 2014; Museum Folkwang: Painting & Sculpture 19th–21st Century, Essen and Munich: Museum Folkwang; Sieveking Verla, 2014: 228–9, illustrated; Newman, Amy. Challenging Art: Artforum 1962–1974. New York: Soho Press, 2014; When Modern Was Contemporary: The Roy R. Neuberger Collection. Purchase, New York: Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, 2014: 179–81, illustrated.
2013
The Contemporary Art Masters. Japan: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 2013: 32–39, illustrated; Delong, Lea Rosson, ed. Des Moines Art Center Collects. Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2013: 352, 353, illustrated; Kansai Collections (exhibition catalogue). Osaka: The Asahi Shimbun, 2013: 98–103, illustrated; Moving: Norman Foster On Art (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Norman Foster and Jean-Marc Prevost. London: Ivorypress Architecture: 79, 81, 382, illustrated; Your Museum Transformed. Saint Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2013: 6, illustrated.
2012
Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2012: 152–153, illustrated; Auf Augenhöhe: Meisterwerke aus Mittelalter und Moderne (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Gabriele Holthuis, Tilman Osterwold, Angelika Bauer and Eva Leistenschneider. Ulm, Germany: Ulmer Museum, 2012: 23, illustrated; Beard, Lee, Adam Butler, Claire Van Cleave, Diane Fortenberry and Susan Stirling. The Art Book. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2012: 463, illustrated; Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by David Pagel and Heather Pesanti. Buffalo, New York: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2012: 21, illustrated; Extreme Abstraction: Revisited. Buffalo, New York: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2012: illustrated; Finger, Brad. Modern Art: The Groundbreaking Moments. Munich: Prestel, 2012: 85, illustrated; Hodge, Susie. Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That. London: Thames & Hudson, 2012: 80, illustrated; Holm, Michael Juul, ed. Self-Portrait (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Helle Crenzien, Eleanor Nairne, Finn Skarderud, Liz Rideal and Marco Pierini. Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2012: 63, illustrated; Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950 (exhibition catalogue). Essays by David Anfam, Bradford R. Collins, Harry Cooper, Ruth Fine, and Christopher Rothko. New York and Columbia, S.C.: Skira Rizzoli; Columbia Museum of Art, 2012; Mythology (exhibition catalogue). Interview between Matthew Spender and Marc Glimcher. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2012: 39–43, illustrated; Soppelsa, Walter, ed. A Selection from the Daros Collection. Text by Jean-Christophe Ammann. Zurich: Daros Services AG, 2012: plates 5–10, illustrated; Rothko / Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes (exhibition catalogue). Text by Richard Shiff. London: Pace Gallery, 2012.
2011
Allen, Felicity. Your Sketchbook Your Self. London: Tate Publishing, 2011: 7, illustrated; Allen Memorial Art Museum: Highlights from the Collection. Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 2011: 93, illustrated; Chikako, Takaoka. The Complete Catalogue of Ohara Museum of Art (I): Foreign Artists. Okayama, Japan: Ohara Museum of Art, 2011: 83, illustrated; Dreishpoon, Douglas. The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Text by Holly E. Hughes, Mariann W. Smith and Susana Tejada. Milan: Skira editore spa, 2011: illustrated; Esteban Vicente in America: Collage, Color and Somewhere in Between (exhibition catalogue). Text by Nicole Atzbach. Dallas: Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, 2011: 33, 40, illustrated; Holzwarth, Hans Werner and Laszlo Taschen, eds. Modern Art: 1870–2000, Impressionism to Today. Köln: Taschen, 2011: 368, 432–433, illustrated; In the Tower: Mark Rothko (exhibition brochure). Text by Harry Cooper. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011; Rylands, Philip, ed. Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection. Text by Nicholas Fox Weber; interview by Lisa Jacobs. New York: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2011: 121, 150, illustrated; Vervoordt, Axel, ed. TRA-The Edge of Becoming (exhibition catalogue). Ghent: Vervoordt Foundation in association with MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2011: illustrated.
2010
Abstract Expressionism at the Museum of Modern Art (exhibition catalogue). Text by Ann Temkin. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2010: 36, 37, 56, 57, 89, 115, illustrated; Blinky Palmero: Retrospective 1964–1977 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Dia Art Foundatin, 2010: 46, illustrated; De Menil, Dominique. The Rothko Chapel: Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine. Houston, Texas: The Rothko Chapel, 2010; In the Tower: Mark Rothko (exhibition brochure). Text by Harry Cooper. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2010; 50 Years at Pace (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2010: illustrated; Kamien, Kazhden, Adina, ed. Modernism in Dialogue: 20th-Century Painting and Sculpture in the Israel Museum. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2010: 168, illustrated; Le grand geste! Informel und Abstrakter Expressionismus 1946–1964 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Kay Heymer, Susanne Rennert and Beat Wismer. Köln: DuMont, 2010: 141, 336, illustrated; Mark Rothko, Into an Unknown World: 1949–1969 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Andrei Tolstoy and Irving Sandler. Moscow: Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, 2010; Masterworks of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Texts by Anette Kruszynski, Maria Müller and Julia Hagenberg. Düsseldorf: Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2010: 106, illustrated; Monet and Abstraction (exhibition catalogue). Text by Paloma Alarcó. Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2010: illustrated; Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection (exhibition catalogue). Text by Judith Goldman. New York: Acquavella Galleries, 2010: 229–233, illustrated; Ronnberg, Ami and Kathleen Martin, eds. The Book of Symbols. Köln: Taschen, 2010: 640, illustrated; United States Embassy London: Art in Embassies Exhibition. Washington, D.C.: Art in Embassies Program, 2010: cover, 4, 27,–28, illustrated.
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