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Born: September 25, 1903
City and Country of Origin: Dvinsk, Russia
Painting School: Abstract Expressionist
Art Training: Art Students League with Max Weber
Exhibitions: Opportunity Galleries 1928 group show; Contemporary Arts Gallery 1933; Art of This Century in New York in 1945; MoMA 1961 solo exhibition
Awards:
Major Works: "Earth and Green," "White Over Red"
Mark Rothko Biography: He was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia. In 1913 his family left Russia and settled in Portland, Oregon. He attended Yale from 1921-23 on a scholarship, but left without a degree to move to New York where he studied art with Max Weber at the Art Students League. He worked as an easel painter for the WPA Federal Art Project from 1936 to 1937. During the late '30s and early '40s his work was influenced by the work of his associates Barnett Newman and Adolf Gottlieb. He created large flat horizontal fields of color on large overall colored canvases. He was given a solo show by Peggy Guggenheim in 1945. In 1935 along with Adolph Gottlieb the founded The Ten. From 1947-49 he taught at the School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He completed large canvases for New York's Four Seasons Restaurant in 1958, murals for Harvard University in 1962 and murals for an interdenominational chapel in Houston, Texas. He committed suicide in his studio in 1970..
Died: 1970

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