Mark
Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia, on
September 25, 1903. From 1921 to 1923 Rothko attended
Yale University on a full scholarship and then moved to
New York City. In 1924 he enrolled in the Art Students
League, studying with George Bridgman and Max Weber, in
whose class he befriended Louis Harris. He was given his
first one-man exhibition in 1933 at the Museum of Art
in Portland and his first in New York a few months later
at the Contemporary Arts Gallery. The New York exhibition
included landscapes, nudes, portraits, and city scenes.
At the end of 1934 Rothko participated in an exhibition
at the Gallery Secession, whose members included Louis
Harris, Adolph Gottlieb, Ilya Bolotowsky and Joseph Solman;
several months later they left the Secession to form their
own group, the Ten, which exhibited together eight times
between 1935 and 1939. Rothko's paintings in the Ten's
exhibitions were expressionist in style. During this period
he was employed by the WPA (Works Progress Administration),
where he produced many subway scenes emphasizing the isolation
of the riders.
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