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[ad_1] His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko. "Everybody knows and loves Rothko's large abstract canvases, but very few people know that he made nearly 3,000 works on paper," said curator Adam Greenhalgh. Now, an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hopes to tell a lesser-known Rothko story – the trail of paper works the artist left behind. "Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper," at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. CBS News Greenhalgh said, "We can see his sources, we can see his early ambitions, his aspirations, and the way that he understands paper to be just as significant and important as his much-better-known canvases."

[ad_1] Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Raising Indigenous voices throughout her art - CBS News Watch CBS News Over the last five decades, artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has had nearly 100 shows, and in 2020 a painting of hers was the first by a Native American to join the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Now the 83-year-old is the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City – the museum's first retrospective ever of an Indigenous artist. Correspondent Serena Altschul reports on a moment that's been described as long overdue. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On [ad_2] Source link