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Books by Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko (1903–1970) was an American painter of Latvian-Jewish origin and one of the central figures of Abstract Expressionism. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, he immigrated to the United States in 1913. He studied briefly at Yale, then moved to New York and began painting in the early 1930s. His mature color-field style emerged in the late 1940s and defined the last two decades of his career. The Seagram Murals, the Rothko Chapel in Houston, and major holdings at the Tate Modern and MoMA represent the scale of his legacy. He died by suicide in his studio in 1970.