Mark Rothko

American, born Russia (now Latvia), 1903 - 1970

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  • Two bird-like creatures almost fill this this vertical abstract painting. Behind them, the composition is divided into three horizonal zones. The top zone is layered with washes of pink and blue. The middle has vertical and horizontal strokes of ash brown over tan. The third zone, along the bottom, has broad strokes of mint green and white. The two bird-like creatures span the height of the middle zone, with their heads extending into the top zone and their tails into the bottom. The creature on our right looks more like a bird, with a light gray, wedge-shaped body covered with peach-colored dabs that suggest plumage. A curved wing-like shape emerges from its right side. A spindly neck and an orange eye facing our right in profile extend into the upper, pink and blue zone. In that zone, above the bird’s head, are a blue and yellow spiral, at the top center of the painting, and a mint-green, curving form reminiscent of a butterfly near the upper right corner. The creature on our left is more difficult to follow. In the upper zone, a ghostly, rooster-like head faces our right in profile, with a coxcomb and long, beard-like shape striped with angled, chevron lines down its length. In the middle, a form that could be the bird’s wide body has horizonal black lines against a white field. The white areas curve around a peach-colored shape, like a fat, cartoonish exclamation point, up the center. What could be tail feathers fan out into the mint-green zone along the bottom. The artist signed the lower right corner, “MARK ROTHKO.”

    Hierarchical Birds

    Mark Rothko

    1944

    Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1986.43.20

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  • Abstraction

    Mark Rothko

    c. 1944

    Watercolor, gouache, and pen and black ink on pinkwove paper  Accession ID  1986.43.209

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  • Untitled

    Mark Rothko

    c. 1944

    Watercolor, pen and black ink, and brush and black ink on wove paper  Accession ID  1986.43.215

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  • Abstract Composition

    Mark Rothko

    c. 1944

    Watercolor, pen and black ink, and brush and blackink over graphite on wove paper  Accession ID  1986.43.232

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  • Untitled

    Mark Rothko

    c. 1948

    Watercolor on watercolor paper  Accession ID  1986.43.256

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  • Olympian Play

    Mark Rothko

    1943/1944

    Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1986.43.72

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  • Untitled

    Mark Rothko

    1943/1944

    Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1986.43.108

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  • Untitled

    Mark Rothko

    1943/1944

    Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1986.43.124

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  • The Omen

    Mark Rothko

    1943

    Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1986.43.128

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  • Untitled

    Mark Rothko

    1943

    Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1986.43.62

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  • Untitled

    Mark Rothko

    1943

    Oil and chalk on canvas  Accession ID  1986.43.60

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  • Untitled

    Mark Rothko

    1942

    Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1986.43.105

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