Marcus Rothkowitz was born on September 25, 1903 in Dvinsk, Russia, the son of a pharmacist. Their family moved to Portland, Oregon in the United States in 1913. He changed his name to Mark Rothko at the advent of the war in Europe. Rothko received a scholarship to Yale University, but dropped out to move to New York, where he attended the Art Students League while working in the garment district.
...see more » He first exhibited in 1928 in New York and had his first solo exhibition in 1933 at the Portland Art Museum followed by one in New York.
Rothko was a member of a group of artists that were abstract and expressionist painters, but his technique evolved to a mythological and primitive art style. During later years, his art was more surrealistic and emotional, but definitely modern. During the 1940s he worked for a Federal Art Project under the WPA or Works Progress Administration of the government to subsidize his income. He also taught art at San Francisco's School of Fine Arts and at the Center Academy of the Brooklyn Jewish Center.
During the 1950s Rothko's mature style emerged into the luminous rectangular shaped abstract art that he would continue painting from then on. His first commission was for the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York followed by other commissions and exhibitions. In 1961 the Museum of Modern Art gave him a solo exhibition and in 1962 he completed a mural for Harvard University. He accepted a commission in 1964 for a mural in a chapel at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas that he never completed.
Rothko suffered an aneurysm in 1968 due to chronic high blood pressure and on February 25, 1970 he took his own life at his studio in New York. The mural for the Houston chapel was completed after his death. His work can be found in museums and galleries, private, corporate and public collections and retailers worldwide.« see less
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