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Mark Rothko

♂  American, born Russia (now Latvia). 1903–1970

Mark Rothko has been in 28 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1949 and 1989.

28 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

6 December 1949 to 26 March 1950

Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Roberto Matta and William Zorach, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

5 December 1950 to 7 January 1951

Jackson Pollock, Roberto Matta, William Zorach and Victor D'Amico, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America

23 January to 25 March 1951

Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from 5 New York Private Collections

26 June to 9 September 1951

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

4 December 1951 to 6 January 1952

Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, William Zorach and Victor D'Amico, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 15 Americans

9 April to 27 July 1952

Jackson Pollock, Dorothy C. Miller, Frederick Kiesler and Mark Rothko, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The New American Painting as Shown in Eight European Countries 1958–1959

28 May to 8 September 1959

Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dorothy C. Miller and Willem de Kooning, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

3 December 1959 to 31 January 1960

Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Ben Shahn and Alberto Giacometti, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Mark Rothko

18 January to 12 March 1961

Mark Rothko and Peter Selz were involved.

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Modern Paintings

18 August 1961 to 20 April 1962

Robert Motherwell, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Sam Francis and Mark Rothko, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

Started 27 May 1964

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

16 February to 25 April 1965

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

17 January to 4 March 1968

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage

27 March to 9 June 1968

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jasper Johns and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

28 May to 1 September 1969

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation

18 June to 5 October 1969

Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Mark Rothko, 1903–1970

26 March to 31 May 1970

Mark Rothko and Alicia Legg were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800–1950

29 September to 30 November 1976

John Marin, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock and Charles Burchfield, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection

28 April to 4 July 1978

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

26 October 1983 to 3 January 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Philip Johnson: Selected Gifts

10 April to 27 October 1985

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Contemporary Works from the Collection

21 November 1985 to 1 April 1986

Joan Miró, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

18 December 1985 to 20 May 1986

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Alexander Calder and Jim Dine, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings Acquisitions

24 January to 14 June 1987

Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawing since 1940

25 June to 13 October 1987

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

24 November 1988 to 10 January 1989

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection

16 March to 4 July 1989

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.