1903  Born Marcus Rothkowitz on September 25, in Dvinsk, Russia

1921 – 1923  Moved to the United States and attended Yale University, New Haven, on a scholarship

1923  Moved to New York and studied briefly at the Art Students League

1936 – 1937  Created paintings for the WPA Federal Art Project from 1936 to 1937

1948  Founded the short-lived Subjects of the Artist school in New York with William Baziotes, David Hare, and Robert Motherwell

1947 – 1949  Taught at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco

1970  Took his own life February 25, in his New York studio

Selected Exhibitions

2008 – 2009  Sept. 26 - Feb. 1, "ROTHKO", Tate Modern, London

2003 – 2007  Oct. 12 - Aug. 12, "Mark Rothko, The Mural Projects", National Gallery of Art, US

1987  Tate Gallery, London (solo)

1984  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (toured the United States, 1984-86) (solo)

1981  Pace Gallery, New York (solo)

1978  Guggenheim Museum, New York (solo)
         Pace Gallery, New York (solo)

1977  Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Mantua, Italy (solo)

1975  Cleveland Museum of Art (with Milton Avery and Jon Schueler)

1974  Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (solo)

1972  Hayward Gallery, London (solo)

1971  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn (solo)

1970  Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)

1965  Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome (solo)

1963  Guggenheim Museum, New York (solo)

1961  Solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1958  Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (solo)

1957  Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (solo)

1954  Art Institute of Chicago (travelled to the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence) (solo)

1951  Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (solo)

1946  Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York (solo)

         San Francisco Museum of Art (travelled to the Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California) (solo)

1945  Peggy Guggenheim gave Rothko a solo show at Art of This Century in New York

1940  (solo) Neumann-Willard Gallery, New York (with Marcel Gromaire and Joseph Solman)

1933  First solo show took place at the Portland Art Museum

1933  First solo exhibition in New York at the Conemporary Arts Gallery

1928  First group exhibition at the Opportunity Galleries, New York