Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko in 1953. Photo by Henry Elkan, Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970) was a Latvian-born American painter of Jewish ancestry; leader of the New York Abstract-Expressionist school of painters after World War II. He was known for painting rectangular shapes on large canvases. On February 25, 1970, painter Mark Rothko was found dead in his New York City studio, after having committed suicide at age 66.

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  Contemplation

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  Untitled

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  Number-10

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  New Forms

See also

• Contemporary painting
• Abstract painting

External links

• Mark Rothko at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 248 works.
• Mark Rothko