Mark Rothko
American painter
Mark Rothko, Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970, was an American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color,... Wikipedia
Born: September 25, 1903, Daugavpils, Latvia
Died: February 25, 1970 (age 66 years), New York, NY
Organization founded: The Ten
Influenced: Bill Viola, Robert Ryman, Cleve Gray, and more
Influenced by: Milton Avery, Friedrich Nietzsche, and John D. Graham
Children: Christopher Rothko and Kate Rothko
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