September 2011
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Seeing a Rothko
I’ve never really made personal post on this blog and before yesterday I never really thought to. The point of this blog was simply to share Mark Rothko with people who loved his work and people who had never heard of him.
Simply this blog is about Rothko, not me.
But after visiting the Museum of the Art Institute in Chicago (I was visiting a friend up here) I felt I had to share this...
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“I thought in a sense the seriousness of his [Rothko] demeanor was because of his...”
– Sidney Schectman
Gallery owner, involved with the artist group The Ten of which Mark Rothko was a memeber. The quote refers to Rothko’s early works.
Source: Oral history interview with Bernard Braddon and Sidney Paul Schectman, 1981 Oct. 9, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian...
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