Explore the life of the celebrated artist whose luminous color field paintings helped define the abstract expressionist movement, which shifted the art world epicenter from Paris to New York.

When a New York Times art critic reviewed Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb’s work, the artists responded with a letter that became a manifesto on abstract art. In it, they stressed being in favor of ...

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) sought to create a spiritual transaction between artwork and viewer. “The artist,” he wrote, “tries to give human beings direct contact with eternal verities through reduction ...