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When Rothko was Rothkowitz

By Patricia Failing Marcus Rothkowitz, who became “Mark Rothko” in 1940, was born in Russia in 1903 and grew up in Portland, Oregon. He took his first art classes at the Museum Art School before departing with a scholarship to Yale in 1921. In 1933 the artist and his wife hitchhiked from New York to [...]

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