The Essential Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is generally considered, along with Jackson Pollock, the preeminent artist of the group of painters who, during the 1940s and ’50s, re-invented American art and became known as the Abstract Expressionists. Yet despite his success — people cried when they stood in front of his sublimely spiritual canvases — he suffered from intense anxiety and depression, and eventually took his own life.