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Rothko in Portland Today is the 95th anniversary of the passing of Mark Rothko's father Jacob Rothkowitz on May 27, 1914. Rothko was 11 at the time and had only been in Portland 7 months before his father passed. The house that they lived in at the time was in 834 Front Street in Southwest Portland. I have been rereading James Breslin's excellent biography of Rothko and found this quote on page 34: Rothko spent "his youth in front of the endless space of the landscape of Oregon lying covered by the wintry snows, in front of the monumental emptiness that is nothingness and and at the same time part of it 'all'".
Posted by Arcy Douglass on March 26, 2009 at 20:19 | Comments (0) Comments Post a comment Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
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