Earl Kerkam
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Earl Cavis Kerkam was an American painter. According to Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, George Spaventa and Esteban Vicente, he “was one of the finest painters to come out of America.”
Roslyn, easel painting for the Federal Art Project in New York City
Wartime conservation poster designed for the Federal Art Project in New York City
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