The Washington Post, December 13th, 1998
MARK ROTHKO The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonne By David Anfam Yale/National Gallery of Art. 708 pp. $125 Reviewed by Dore Ashton, author of "About Rothko" and numerous other books on painters of his generation. Since Mark Rothko's death in 1970, the literature on his life's work has abounded, essaying again and again to articulate its character. The experience of Rothko's mature work, it seems, is of such a mysterious origin that almost all commentators can be caught stammering, anxiously guarding themselves against charges of sentimentality or just plain hot air. That may be why Rothko, ...
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