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Mark Rothko Untitled 1942 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Mark Rothko Untitled 1943 oil on canvas Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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Mark Rothko Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red) 1949 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Mark Rothko Untitled ca. 1950-52 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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Mark Rothko Untitled 1952-53 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao |
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Mark Rothko No. 4 (Untitled) 1953 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Mark Rothko Green and Maroon 1953 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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Mark Rothko Ochre and Red on Red 1954 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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Mark Rothko Untitled (Blue, Yellow, Green on Red) 1954 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Mark Rothko Green and Tangerine on Red 1956 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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Mark Rothko Light Red over Black 1957 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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Mark Rothko Orange and Red on Red 1957 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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Mark Rothko White Center 1957 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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Mark Rothko Four Darks in Red 1958 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Mark Rothko Grey, Orange on Maroon no. 8 1960 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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Mark Rothko Untitled 1968 acrylic on paper, mounted on panel Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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Mark Rothko Red 1968 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
from From the Cupola
Morning The task is done When my sisters wake
they will look once more upon pale water and clear sky
a fair far brow of land
with its fillet of Greek trees oak apple willow
and here below in the foreground
across a street finished down to the last detail
a red clapboard temple The neat outlines
it's a warehouse really have been filled with colors
dull red flaking walls white trim
and pediment tar roof patched black on black
Greek colors An effect I hope
not too much spoiled by a big yellow legend
BOAT WORKS on the roof which seagulls helicopters
the highup living and the happy dead
are in a position to read
– James Merrill (1966)