These days the artist Mark Rothko's fame rests primarily on his paintings of soft-edged rectangles of complementary and contrasting colors. In 1958, when these distinctive and evocative "color field" ...

Take a look at Mark Rothko’s Untitled (1968) – the blue background displays a deep sapphire shade that, although obstructed by large black blocks, nonetheless hypnotizes and radiates an overwhelming, ...

American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and rectangles had a long and intimate 20-year relationship. His paintings display almost exclusively those geometric shapes, that art critics describe as: ...

Senior thesis completed at Trinity College, Hartford, CT for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Art History. Abstract Nothing, at first glance, seems a more unlikely point of departure for a discussion ...

The artist’s complex paper works dazzle on display in Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, on view through March 31 at the National Gallery of Art. The spirited Rothko is the subject of an exquisite show ...