| Mark Rothko (1903-1970) | ||
| National Gallery of Art
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Rothko was born in Russia (Latvia) but moved
to the United States with his family in 1913. Although he attended Yale and studied
briefly at the Art Students League, he was considered to be largely a self-taught artist.
His first one-man show was in New York City in 1933. He was involved in social realism (1930s) and surrealism (1940s) before developing a style based on primitive religion. Rothko's later nonobjective color field paintings sometimes resembled muted washrags. A legal dispute over his estate resulted in a $9,252,000 judgment against the executors and Marlborough Galleries.
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"Washcloth Rothko"