Dominique de Menil
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Dominique de Menil was a French-American art collector, philanthropist, founder of the Menil Collection and an heiress to the Schlumberger Limited oil equipment fortune. She was awarded the National M
Dominique de Menil
De Menil with gallery model, Houston, 1973
Strake and Jones Halls, designed by Philip Johnson, University of St. Thomas, Houston
Southeast corner of the Menil Collection, Houston
Mark Rothko
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Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born 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
Mark Rothko, Yorktown Heights, c. 1949. Brooklyn Museum, by Consuelo Kanaga.
Baptismal Scene (1945) at the National Gallery of Art in 2023. This was Rothko's first painting to enter a museum collection, acquired by the Whitney Museum in 1946.
Sacrifice (1946) at the National Gallery of Art in 2023
No. 9 (1948), an example of the artist's "multiform" paintings, at the National Gallery of Art in 2023