The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Mark Rothko was a painter of the 'New York School' - one of the first of the 'Colour Fielders'. He is best known, perhaps, for the black panels of a Houston Chapel, in Texas. He slit his arms at the elbows in 1970.