Exhibition: Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away

An exhibition of rarely seen paintings on paper from the final years of Mark Rothko’s life.

This landmark exhibition will be the first in the UK that is solely dedicated to the artist’s extraordinary paper-based practice.

Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away brings together key paintings from Rothko’s renowned body of work made in the late 1960s—a significant and prolific period in the artist’s life. In the wake of a particularly difficult bout of ill health and a tumultuous time in his personal life, Rothko was forced to reduce the scale of his practice from his signature monumental canvas to more intimately sized paper. Despite physical limitations, Rothko worked feverishly with a renewed enthusiasm for color, delighted by the effect of acrylic paint, which he had newly discovered.