How Mark Rothko and Adoph Gottlieb responded to The New York Times. When a New York Times art critic reviewed Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb's work, the artists responded with a letter that became a ...

Explore the life of the celebrated artist whose luminous color field paintings helped define the abstract expressionist movement, which shifted the art world epicenter from Paris to New York.

Among the many exhibitions of Mark Rothko’s paintings I have seen over the course of many years-and this includes major Among the many exhibitions of Mark Rothko’s paintings I have seen over the ...

His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko.

It's easy to interpret the large, dark paintings of Mark Rothko's final months as bleak, the work of an artist whose long struggle with ill health and depression ended when he took his own life in ...

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) sought to create a spiritual transaction between artwork and viewer. “The artist,” he wrote, “tries to give human beings direct contact with eternal verities through reduction ...