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.[1] On February 25, 1970, painter Mark Rothko was found dead in his New York City studio, after having committed suicide at age 66.[2]

* Contemplation

* Untitled

* Number-10

* New Forms

## See also[edit]

* Contemporary painting
* Abstract painting

## External links[edit]

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

## References[edit]

1. ↑ The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989
2. ↑ Artist Mark Rothko is found dead.