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Mark (Rothkowitz) Rothko

Mark (Rothkowitz) Rothko (1903 - 1970) was active/lived in New York / Ukraine, Russian Federation.  Mark Rothko is known for Abstract expressionist painter, early surreal.

© 2001 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in 1903 in Dvinsk, Russia.  His father was a pharmacist.  As a child he spoke Hebrew and Russian until he was ten years old; in 1913 he and his two sisters, Anna and Sonia, came to Portland, Oregon, where their parents had preceded them.  They wore labels explaining that they did not speak English; he enrolled in Immigrant School. In 1921 he won a scholarship to Yale University; he was one of three immigrant seniors to get into Yale.  He planned on becoming a labor leader. In 1923 he left Yale, moving to New York to work as a bookkeeper for an uncle. Somewhere along the way he disavowed his faith, struggling with a cultural identity developed against a hostile backdrop of anti-Semitism.

In 1925 he began taking life-drawing classes eventually studying at the Art Students League with Max Weber.  He was also much influenced by Milton Avery's simple paintings and by the work of Matisse.  In 1935 h   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8729 characters.]  Artist bio

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