Mark Rothko, the great American artist of Russian descent, is one of the chief exponents of Abstract Expressionism. His paintings, predominantly in a large format and featuring horizontal layers of pigment on a monochrome foundation, will forever be in our pictorial memory as the epitome of classical modernism.

Prelude Oliver Wick

Acknowledgements Ernst Beyeler, Oliver Wick

Encounters with Rothko Franz Meyer

Mark Rothko, "A consummated experience between picture and onlooker" Oliver Wick

Underworld Jeffrey Weiss

The Rothko Room at The Phillips Collection Eliza E. Rathbone

The First Installation of the Harvard Murals Marjorie B. Cohn

Works

List of Works

Reminiscences of a Passionate Collector Ben Heller

Chronology Jessica Stewart

Selected Bibliography Renee" Maurer