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Birth
1903 (Dvinsk, Ukraine, Russia)
Death
1970 (New York, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
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abstract expressionist painter, early surreal
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Abstract Expressionism
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Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in 1903 in Dvinsk, Russia. His father
was a pharmacist. As a child he spoke Hebrew and Russian until he was
ten years old; in 1913 he and his two sisters, Anna and Sonia, came to
Portland, Oregon, where their parents had preceded them. They wore
labels explaining that they did not speak English; he enrolled in
Immigrant School. In 1921 he won a scholarship to Yale University; he
was one of three immigrant seniors to get into Yale.&n (showing 500 of 7028 characters). |
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