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Untitled (Painting) by Mark Rothko

Untitled (Painting)

Mark Rothko · 1953

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DETAILS
Artist
Mark Rothko
Date
1953
Medium
Oil on canvas
Location
Art Institute of Chicago
Dimensions
Unframed: 265.1 × 298.1 cm (104 3/8 × 117 3/8 in.); 265.2 × 298.2 cm (104 3/8 × 117 3/8 in.)
Culture
United States
Credit line
Friends of American Art Collection
ART MOVEMENTS
Abstract ExpressionismColor Field paintingTachisme
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THE ARTIST

Mark Rothko

1903–1970 · United States

Mark Rothko was an American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American abstract expressionism movement of modern art.

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