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"tombstone": "No. 2 (Red Maroons), 1962. Mark Rothko (American, 1903\u20131970). Oil on canvas; framed: 202 x 207 x 3.5 cm (79 1/2 x 81 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.); unframed: 200.7 x 205.7 cm (79 x 81 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection and Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.239. \u00a9 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"inscription": "Signed on back of canvas: \"Mark Rothko 1962 #2\"",
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"id": 302276,
"title": "Year in Review - 1962",
"description": "Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).",
"opening_date": "1962-10-24T04:00:00"
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"id": 300904,
"title": "Fifty Years of Modern Art",
"description": "Fifty Years of Modern Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 15-July 31, 1966).",
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"id": 310025,
"title": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960",
"description": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).",
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"did_you_know": "Rothko once stated, \u201cA painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.\u201d",
"description": "When asked to explain the aims of his art, Rothko answered, \u201cI\u2019m interested only in expressing basic human emotions\u2014tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. . . .\u201d Most of his mature works feature diffuse areas of color appearing to float against a background of a different hue. Rothko typically applied several layers of diluted paint to each canvas, sometimes rubbing the wet surfaces with cloths to achieve his ethereal effects. Born Marcus Rothkowitz, the artist altered his name in 1940, partly in response to antisemitism. He and fellow Jewish artists\u2014including Lee Krasner, Morris Louis, and Louise Nevelson, all represented in this gallery\u2014made major contributions toward the development of American abstract art during the mid-1900s.",
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cIn Pursuit of: Content.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 8 (October 1963): 219\u2013239.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 229-231, fig. 4",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 203",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n227"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 203",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n227"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 4",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n5"
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cPlanes, Structure, Color, and Content.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 7 (September 1974): 223\u2013239.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 231, fig. 17",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152534"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Anfam, David. Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonne\u0301. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.",
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