When Mark Rothko traveled to Florence in 1950, he had a lot on his mind. His mother had recently died, and his wife, Mell, was pregnant with their first child. At age 46, he was looking for teaching ...

Plenty of people can tell you what a Mark Rothko painting looks like. Posters of the Abstract Expressionist’s seductive fields of color are a fixture on dorm room walls. Fewer people can tell you what ...

It's easy to interpret the large, dark paintings of Mark Rothko's final months as bleak, the work of an artist whose long struggle with ill health and depression ended when he took his own life in ...

Mark Rothko, "Untitled (seated figure in interior)," c. 1938, watercolor on construction paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Mark Rothko ...