A new show at Pace Gallery finds Mark Rothko, one of the leading lights of Abstract Expressionsim, combining rigorous techniques, well-chosen influences, and bursts of originality all his own.

Painter Mark Rothko sold newspapers on Portland street corners, worked in his uncle’s downtown Portland clothing store, and eventually enrolled at Lincoln High School, where he excelled.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s easy to imagine Mark Rothko, American art’s high priest of the oppressive sublime, as having emerged fully formed. The dense fogs of color that define his iconic ...

But Mark Rothko also produced nearly 3,000 works on paper. An exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art explores the remarkable paper trail he left behind. Latest ...