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Mark Rothko:
Abstract Expressionist
Title: No. 12 (Black on Dark Sienna on Purple), 1960
Artist: Mark Rothko (American 1903-1970)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 119 ¼ x 105 inches
Permanent Collection: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Panza Collection
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko /
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Image Courtesy: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Abstract Expressionism master Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Latvia emigrating to the USA as a ten year old boy. He settled in Portland, Oregon with his family and at
age 17 earned a scholarship to Yale University. He left Yale within two years to study with Arshile Gorky at the New School of Design in New York City. Another teacher and influence
upon Rothko was Max Weber at the Art Students League and later Milton Avery.
Title: No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1953
Artist: Mark Rothko (American 1903-1970)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 115 ¾ x 91 ¼ inches
Permanent Collection: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Panza Collection
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko /
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Image Courtesy: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
After some experimentation with Surrealism he began to work on the abstract aesthetic for which he is noted, believing that art should be a tool for both emotional
and religious expression, allowing the viewer to transcend from the earthly experience.
Title: No. 9 (Dark over light Earth/violet and yellow in Rose), 1954
Artist: Mark Rothko (American 1903-1970)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 83 ½ x 67 ¾ inches
Permanent Collection: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Panza Collection
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko /
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Image Courtesy: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), of Los Angeles has organized an exhibit using 8 out of 10 major
Rothko paintings from MOCA’s collection.
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Included are eight of Rothko’s major paintings
spanning the period from 1947 to 1960.
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#7599 Untitled (1280), c. 1943
Artist: Mark Rothko (American 1903-1970)
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Dimensions: 22 ½ x 15 ¾ inches
Permanent Collection: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Bequest of Marcia Simon Weisman
© 2006 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko /
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Image Courtesy: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Visitors to the exhibition will view:
- Untitled (14B) (1947)
- Yellow and Orange (1949)
- No. 61 (Rust and Blue) [Brown Blue, Brown on Blue] (1953)
- No. 9 (Dark over Light Earth/Violet and Yellow in Rose)
[Violet and Yellow on Rose] (1954)
- No. 46 [Black, Ochre, Red Over Red] (1957)
- Purple Brown (1957)
- No. 301 (Reds and Violet over Red/Red and Blue over Red)
[Red and Blue over Red] (1959)
- Black on Dark Sienna on Purple (1960)
The installation in MOCA's Pacific Design Center Gallery provides a unique
chance to see them as was originally intended; an intimate setting in juxtaposition beside other Rothko works to have the
viewer 'enveloped' among the paintings
Mark Rothko
Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center:
November 5, 2006 - January 21, 2007
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