Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (Russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, Latvian: Markuss Rotkovičs; name not Anglicized until 1940), (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an American abstract painter of Latvian Jewish descent. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.
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25 September 1903 Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia)
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Died |
25 February 1970 (aged 66) New York City, New York, U.S.
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Zodiac | Libra |
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