absolutearts.com
|  arts marketplace  |  browse the arts  |  submit arts news  |  media kit  |  services  |  art history 

 

help   |  media kit   |  about us   |  services   |  contact  
NEWEST TRENDS                                              .   BUY   .   JOIN   .   COLLECT   .   RESEARCH   .   READ  .   DISCUSS  


 

Artist: Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970)
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Born in Dvinsk, Russia as Marcus Rothkovitch, he immigrated to the United States at the age of ten and shortened his name. Rothko studied at Yale University and the Art Student’s League in New York, also his style developed gradually over many years spent teaching for a living. His early works were Expressionist portraits and urban landscapes, followed by a Surrealist stage influenced by Arshille Gorky. Rothko began painting his famous color-field pieces in 1947. Although this work was a success, his personal life was tormented with depression and alcoholism, which ended with his suicide in 1970.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Mark Rothko.

-
Mark Rothko - No. 3 1947 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 5/ No. 22 1950 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 10 1950 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 8 1964 oil, acrylic and mix National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 6 1964 oil, acrylic and mix National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 37/ No. 19 1958 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 22 1948 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 2 1947 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 5 1964 oil, acrylic and mix National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 5 1958 oil and acrylic on c National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 10 1949 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 1 1961 oil and acrylic on c National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 18 1946 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 10 1948 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 17 or No. 15 1949 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 7 or No. 11 1949 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - #73 1952 oil on canvas High Museum of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 9 1948 oil and mixed media National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 4 1964 mixed media on canva National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - No. 7 1964 mixed media on canva National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Orange and Tan 1954 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Man Smoking 1933 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Memory 1946 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Music 1936 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Untitled 1947 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Untitled 1947 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Untitled 1942 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Untitled c. 1941 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Irene 1933 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Landscape 1944 oil and graphite on National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Untitled 1947 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Untitled 1947 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Untitled 1947 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Nude 1933 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - The Omen 1943 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - The Party 1938 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Personage Two 1946 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Portrait 1936 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - Red Band 1955 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
-
Mark Rothko - The Pugilist 1933 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
Click on any of the links below to read about artnews or exhibitions related to Rothko


Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: F A Room of Their Own: From Rothko to Rauschenberg
This presentation together with A Room of Their Own: From Oldenburg to Gober will span more than 50 years of contemporary art. The exhibition is co-organized by MOCA chief cu...

Guggenheim Hermitage Museum: A Century of Painting: From Renoir to Rothko
We are very pleased to present this exhibition of modern masterpieces from the permanent collection of the Guggenheim," said Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. "Renoir to Rothko offers a sweeping overview of painting from th...

Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: On the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell
Although the concept of the sublime is most often identified with nineteenth-century Romanticism, the first century CE philosopher Longinus is credited with one of the earliest discussions. In On t...

Phillips Collection: William Scharf: Paintings, 1984-2000
Scharf's work, which brings to mind the paintings of Arshile Gorky and Mark Rothko, for whom he served as a studio assistant, has been considered second generation abstract expressionist. His sources and references, howeve...

National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...

Tate Gallery: Britain s New National Museum of Modern Art, and Will Open to the Public for the First Time on 12 May.
Bankside Power Station has been transformed into Tate Modern by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The former Turbine Hall, running the whole length of the vast building, now marks a breathtaking entrance to the gallery. From...

Menil Collection: SAM FRANCIS: PAINTINGS 1947-1990
...

Phillips Collection: Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips
Phillips’ early ambition was to be a critic. At the end, he had become one of the primary interpreters of modernism in the United States, as well as the collector of nearly 2,000 ...

Lawrence Gallery Portland: New Works by Painter Ann Ruttan
Patron’s of Ruttan’s work will be dazzled by her new collection as they are revealed in the main gallery on 1st Thursday, September 1st. Those seeking Ruttan’s work for the first time, should look forward to large scale canvases which mirror t...

Evergreen Cultural Centre: Call for Artists: Digitalis 2: The Spiritual in Digital Art
Please submit a maximum of 3 low resolution JPEG or GIF files as well as a bio, artist statement and proposal to electric@telus.net by June 1, 2002 The Evergreen Cultural Centre is located in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, near Vancouver (3...

Neuberger Museum of Art: Placing Avery
Milton Avery had a strong, “Connecticut Yankee” work ethic. He painted for 50 years, some times spending all day for weeks at a time at his easel, and sometimes creating as many as five or six paintings or studies in one day.  He’s been quoted as...

Neuberger Museum of Art: Welcome Home Milton!
Milton Avery brought together simple, spare forms and harmonious colors to build patterns of flat, interlocking shapes reminiscent of French artist Henri Matisse. He frequently ...

Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery: Recent Paintings: Ray Pierotti, Roy Carruthers and T.L. Lange
Ray Pierotti's work appears in numerous collections and installations around the world. His first showing in Atlanta at Mason Murer, www.masonmurer.com, (one of Atlanta’s newest fine art galleries) presents recent paintings based on the Sacred G...

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Art at Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The exhibition opens with art by European and Latin American artists such as Max Ernst and Matta, whose work was to play a defining role in shaping the New Yor...

Museum Jan van der Togt: Sam Francis
Sam Francis was a citizen of the world who lived for art. American by birth, he has spend a large part of his live in Europe (Paris and Bern), Tokyo and New York. Some of his paintings have been partly created in Paris, worked on in New York, and ...

Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...

Art Gallery of New South Wales: Wolfgang Laib: The Third Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project
Laib spent part of his youth in southern India and the experience had a profound impact on his life and work. Having studied medicine, it was through his exposure to temple offerings in Tamil Nadu that he realised how he could begin to make art as...

Cobden Club: Richard Stickler - A British Contemporary Abstract Artist and Musician
Digital Abstract Photography A series of Signed Limited Edition photographs is exhibited at Cobden Club London. They are the result of the study of artificial light, and the interaction with its surroundings. Based on the discovery on how ne...

Dia Center for the Arts: Concordance: Alfred Jensen
Jensen was in many ways an autodidact, his aesthetic informed by the study of a broad range of esoteric interests, including the color theories of Goethe, the writings of Leonardo da Vinci, Pythagorean geometry, Mayan and ancient Chinese calen...

State Museum of Pennsylvania: The Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2003
Doug Kinsey's painting, "Float-Hole Series: keleusma" has been selected for exhibition. Kurt Shaw (art critic for The Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA) has stated in a recent review (Feb. 21, 2003) that: "'Interior/Exterior Landscapes' can be fo...

Philadelphia Museum of Art: Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
It will trace the dramatic shifts in Newman's practice from his Surrealist- inspired drawings of the 1940s, through his development of the trademark vertical stripe ...

Art Gallery of New South Wales: Resonating: Denise Green
Through twenty paintings and sixty-two works on paper Resonating: Denise Green traces the evolution of her work ...

JohnGordon Gallery: John Dahlsen: New Assemblages and Prints
‘These prints on canvas are a relatively new frontier for me, I have been working on perfecting this technique over the past two years with photographers and printers,’ said Dahlsen. ‘I have to say that the prints for this exhibition have really h...

Leslie Sacks Fine Art: New Acquisitions: Part Two Contemporary Art
This literal and sometimes even literary approach is really at the heart of contemporary art, much of which is referred to as “post-modern.” An in depth discussion of post-modernism is well beyond the scope of this short writing, but let it suffic...

Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum: Jimmy Ernst: Transcending the Surreal
This retrospective exhibition features over 35 major paintings. It covers five decades of his art and looks at how he absorbed and transcended Surrealism to create his own unique mode of abstract painting. Jimmy Ernst’s paintings were influenced...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Gestures: Postwar American and European Abstraction from the Permanent Collection
Abstract Expressionism and art informel emerged independently of one another in the mid-1940s and flourished during a redefining period. After World War II, the cultural environment in the United States was, by today’s standards, extremely natio...

Fogg Museum, Harvard: Philip Guston: A New Alphabet Brings Pivotal Group of Paintings Together for First Time
The exhibition is co-organized by Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art at the Fogg Art Museum, and Joanna Weber, acting curator of European and contemporary art at the Yale Art Gallery, with the help of Laura Greengold, a recent graduate ...

Florence Lynch Gallery: Minimalpop: A Joint Effort with CCNOA, Brussels and PS, Amsterdam
The exhibition minimalpop is a joint effort of CCNOA center for contemporary non-objective art, Brussels, and the Amsterdam-based artist-run gallery PS. Both places share a history of exchange of artists as well as curated exhibitions. The conc...

Haus der Kunst: Sean Scully: The Nineties - Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Photographs
Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko and Henri Matisse are the most important influences on the painting of Sean Scully. Since the 1970s, the artist has restricted himself to a severely reduced form repertoire of lines, stripes and blocks for his pictures. ...

Agora Gallery: Modern Prespectives: A Collective Exhibition
Renata Castilho's color choices are bold, creating a feeling of movement and sensuality. The abstraction of her work allows the reader to experience pure color and form, which expresses the essence of an image in an evocative format. Castilho of...

Further Artwork and Information:

NGA | Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko Online
Mark Rothko - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
rothko
National Gallery of Art - Mark Rothko: In-Depth Study
Mark Rothko 100
Mark Hardens texas.net Museum of Art: Artchive - Mark Rothko
Online NewsHour: The Career and Work of Mark Rothko -- August 5, 1998
Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Rothko - Biography

 

Search the Art History Database for artists, titles, media, year, and other indepth information:

 
   

More posters...

Click here to buy Rothko, Mark: Red On Maroon for 24.00
Mark Rothko
Red On Maroon
Our Price: 24.00

Click here to buy Rothko, Mark: Untitled, 1961 for 17.00
Mark Rothko
Untitled, 1961
Our Price: 17.00

Click here to buy Rothko, Mark: Untitled, 1960 for 34.00
Mark Rothko
Untitled, 1960
Our Price: 34.00

Click here to buy Rothko, Mark: No.14, 1960 for 40.00
Mark Rothko
No.14, 1960
Our Price: 40.00

Click here to buy Rothko, Mark: Untitled, 1959 for 14.00
Mark Rothko
Untitled, 1959
Our Price: 14.00

More posters ...

Last updated and links verified on: Thursday December 12/27/07 05:19:03 PM

 

 

indepth arts search:     
 
Free Arts News Subscription | Browse the Arts | Artist Portfolios | International Arts News | Arts News Archive | Privacy Policy