• Mark Rothko was commissioned to produce a series of artworks that would later become known as the Seagram Murals.
  • Rothko’s crisis over the Seagram murals was comparable. It was his finest moment, and yet also the end of his uneasy truce with success, happiness and America.
  • The Seagram Murals are a series of large-scale paintings by abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko. The murals, characterized by their dark and somber...
  • Our first article in the series explores the story behind Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals, which today hang in a special room in the Tate Modern.
  • History and evolution of Mark Rothko's famous Seagram murals now on view at the Tate Modern in London. Kristina Nazarevskaia, galleryIntell.
  • In 1988 Tate Liverpool opened its doors for the very first time with a memorable display of Mark Rothko ’s The Seagram Murals .
  • It wasn’t until 1958 that Rothko received his first major commission, for what would become the Seagram Murals, so-called because they were meant for the...
  • References. TATE (Online) Mark Rothko, The Seagram Mural Project http://www.tate.org.uk %5BAccessed 24 April 2015].
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  • Featured image: Mark Rothko Seagram Murals at Tate Modern. Image by dvdbramhall via Flickr. All images used for illustrative purposes only By Phillip Barcio.
  • (To this day, the series is still known as the Seagram murals.) Rothko, then not a well-known name, was commissioned to deliver "600 square feet of paintings"...
  • Not much, you can read all about Rothko elsewhere, but these are called the Seagram murals because Mark Rothko agreed to provide paintings for the Four...
  • At 3.25pm on Sunday 07/10/12, one of Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals was defaced making headline news, after all Rothko’s paintings fetch huge sums of...