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Artists›Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

1903–1970

WA-00003820

PaintingMinimalismExpressionismColor Field

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

221

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

100%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ160149

MoMA

Field Verification (7 fields)

4 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
Death yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
DeceasedWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
BiographyWikipedia + Ai Generated+1· 88%
LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%

Source Registry (5)

Pace-Galleryhttps://www.pacegallery.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/mark-rothko
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/mark-rothko
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/5047
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Paula-Cooper
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Mark Rothko yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Minimalism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Art Institute of Chicago Cleveland Museum of Art Whitney Museum of American Art Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (41)

Untitled

1969 · Acrylic paint on paper

support: 1730 x 1235 mm

Tate

Untitled

1969 · Acrylic on paper

Sight: 182.5 × 122.5 cm (71 7/8 × 48 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Brown and Gray)

1969 · Acrylic on paper

Sight: 171.4 × 122.8 cm (67 1/2 × 48 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1969 · Acrylic on paper

Sight: 116.7 × 106.2 cm (46 × 41 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1969 · Acrylic on canvas

6' 6" x 66 1/4" (198.1 x 168.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Acrylic and ink on paper

40 1/2 x 26 1/2" (102.2 x 67.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1968 · Acrylic on paper on board

17 7/8 x 23 7/8" (45.4 x 60.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1967 · Acrylic on white wove paper mounted on masonite

65.2 × 50.2 cm (25 11/16 × 19 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

WattsOS

No. 2 (Red Maroons)

1962 · oil on canvas

Framed: 202 x 207 x 3.5 cm (79 1/2 x 81 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.); Unframed: 200.7 x 205.7 cm (79 x 81 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

No. 14 (Horizontals, White over Darks)

1961 · Oil on canvas

56 1/2" x 7' 9 3/8" (143.3 x 237 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Red on Maroon

1959 · Oil paint, acrylic paint and glue on canvas

support: 1829 x 4572 x 43 mm

Tate

Red on Maroon

1959 · Oil paint, pigments and glue on canvas

support: 2667 x 4572 mm

Tate

Red on Maroon

1959 · Oil paint, acrylic paint and glue on canvas

support: 1829 x 4572 x 31 mm

Tate

Black on Maroon

1959 · Oil paint, acrylic paint and glue tempera on canvas

support: 2667 x 4572 x 38 mm

Tate

Red on Maroon

1959 · Oil paint, acrylic paint and glue tempera on canvas

support: 2667 x 2388 x 35 mm

Tate

Black on Maroon

1959 · Oil paint, acrylic paint and glue tempera on canvas

support: 2667 x 2286 x 42 mm

Tate

Black on Maroon

1958 · Oil paint, glue tempera and acrylic paint on canvas

support: 2286 x 2070 mm

Tate

Black on Maroon

1958 · Oil paint and acrylic paint on canvas

support: 2667 x 2413 mm

Tate

Black on Maroon

1958 · Oil paint, acrylic paint, glue tempera and pigment on canvas

support: 2667 x 3812 mm

Tate

No. 37/No. 19 (Slate Blue and Brown on Plum)

1958 · Oil on canvas

7' 11 1/4" x 7' 6 1/4" (241.9 x 229 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

No. 16 (Red, Brown, and Black)

1958 · Oil on canvas

8' 10 5/8" x 9' 9 1/4" (270.8 x 297.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Light Red Over Black

1957 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 2306 x 1527 x 38 mm

Tate

Untitled (Purple, White, and Red)

1953 · Oil on canvas

Unframed: 197.5 × 207.7 cm (77 13/16 × 81 13/16 in.); 197.5 × 207.7 cm (77 3/4 × 81 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Painting)

1953 · Oil on canvas

Unframed: 265.1 × 298.1 cm (104 3/8 × 117 3/8 in.); 265.2 × 298.2 cm (104 3/8 × 117 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (6)

41 published of 60 catalogued · 58 with image

MoMA
18 publishedof 36 catalogued36 img
Tate
13 published13 img
Art Institute Chicago
8 published8 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published
Whitney
1 published
+ 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

Red on Maroon
1959 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Red on Maroon
1959 · Tate · 1 prov
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Red on Maroon
1959 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1946 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Black on Maroon
1958 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Black on Maroon
1959 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Black on Maroon
1959 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Black on Maroon
1958 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1950 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
No. 2 (Red Maroons)
1962 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

84 assets

Artsy

Mark Rothko. Painter Denisova Olesya Alexandrovna

Wikimedia Commons

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Relationships

Peers & Context36

Agnes Martinco-exhibitedRichard Artschwagerco-exhibited Carl Andreco-exhibited Blinky Palermoco-exhibited Francis Baconco-exhibited Willem de Kooningco-exhibited

Movements5

Minimalism Expressionism Color Field Abstract Art Abstract Expressionism

Collections9

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Sotheby's Tate Cleveland Museum of Art Whitney Museum of American Art Art Institute of Chicago

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Pace Gallery

Gallery

Gagosian

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Tate

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Background

Education

Yale University

Visual Arts · 1921

Lincoln High School

Visual Arts · 1921

Art Students League of New York

Visual Arts

Network

Related Artists

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Gottlieb/Rothko

2026

Group Exhibition The Street

2024

Group Exhibition Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts

2005