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
Clyfford Still
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Clyfford Still was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of abstract expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately f
New Windsor, Maryland, home Clyfford Still shared with his wife Patricia from 1966 until his death in 1980
Clyfford Still, 1957-D No. 1, 1957, oil on canvas, 113 × 159 in, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, Colorado