Mark Rothko Biography, Artworks
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ROTHKO, Mark (1903-1970) Latvian-born American painter, classified as an abstract expressionist.
Born at Dvinsk, Russia. He emigrated to the United States in 1913 and lived in Portland, Oregon. He attended Yale University from 1921 to 1923. Taking up painting in 1926, he studied under Max Weber at the Art Students League, New York. His first one-man show (drawings and watercolors) was held at the Portland Art Museum, 1933; later in the same year he exhibited again at Contemporary Arts, New York. In 1936-1937 he worked on the WPA Federal Art Project in New York. Peggy Guggenheim presented another one-man show at Art of This Century, 1945, and in 1946 both the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art devoted exhibitions to his work. He was co-founder of the school "Subjects of the Artist" with Baziotes Motherwell and Barnett Newman in 1948. He taught at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, summers 1947 and 1949, and at Brooklyn College, 1951-1954. He has exhibited frequently at the Betty Parsons Gallery and the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York and been included in the Museum of Modern Art exhibitions: 15 Americans, 1952, and The New American Painting, 1959. He has also participated in the São Paulo Bienal, 1951; Pittsburgh International, 1958; Venice Biennale, 1958; Guggenheim International Award, New York, 1958 (National Section Award); and Documenta II, Kassel.
Bibliography:
Review of the Rothko Exhibition, Art of This Century, in Art Digest, Vol. 19, January 15, 1945. -- Clement Greenberg , American Type Painting, in Partisan Review, Vol. XXII, New York, Spring 1955. -- Dore Ashton , Mark Rothko, in Arts and Architecture, Vol. 74, Los Angeles, August 1957. -- Elaine de Kooning , Mark Rothko, Catalogue Preface, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 1957. -- Elaine de Kooning , Two Americans in Action: Kline and Rothko, in Art News Annual, No. 27, 1958. -- Dore Ashton , Review of the Rothko Exhibition, Sidney Janis Gallery, in Arts and Architecture, Vol. 75, April 1958. -- Sam Hunter, Presentation at the 29th Biennale, Venice 1958.
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