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No. 2 (Red Maroons)

1962

Mark Rothko

(American, 1903–1970)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
Contemporary Collection and Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1962.239
Copyright
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
227 Abstract Expressionism
Print
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Did You Know?

Rothko once stated, “A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”

Description

When asked to explain the aims of his art, Rothko answered, “I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. . . .” Most of his mature works feature diffuse areas of color appearing to float against a background of a different hue. Rothko typically applied several layers of diluted paint to each canvas, sometimes rubbing the wet surfaces with cloths to achieve his ethereal effects. Born Marcus Rothkowitz, the artist altered his name in 1940, partly in response to antisemitism. He and fellow Jewish artists—including Lee Krasner, Morris Louis, and Louise Nevelson, all represented in this gallery—made major contributions toward the development of American abstract art during the mid-1900s.
Oil painting muted by a layer of hazy grey with a central horizontal rectangle of blue, a thinner rectangle of red above and yellow below. The colors bleed in to the gaps between them.

No. 2 (Red Maroons)

1962

Mark Rothko

(American, 1903–1970)
America

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