{"id":12513,"date":"2025-07-21T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12513"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:06:59","slug":"mark-rothko-in-gottlieb-rothko-at-125-newbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/21\/mark-rothko-in-gottlieb-rothko-at-125-newbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Rothko in &#8216;Gottlieb\/Rothko&#8217; at 125 Newbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before they teamed up in 1943 to famously educate a New York Times critic about developments in American modernism, writing, \u2018We favor the simple expression of complex thought,\u2019 Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb worked in a style vastly different from the models of abstraction each would come to pioneer. \u00a0A joint show at <a href=\"http:\/\/125newbury.collagesite.net\/exhibitions\/gottlieb-rothko#tab:thumbnails\">125 Newbury<\/a> demonstrates, however, that they were edging closer to their signature styles in paintings of their friends and surroundings in the \u201820s and \u201830s.\u00a0 Here, Rothko\u2019s bathers dominate a monochrome beach with their large, flat forms and, contrary to the summer weather, convey a chill with their hunched postures and turned backs. (On view in Tribeca through July 25<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4429px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/dea80854-83d7-bd79-95ca-f00b07c429fa.jpg\" alt=\"three figures huddle on a beach\" width=\"4429\" height=\"3242\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Rothko, Bathers on the beach, watercolor, graphite on watercolor paper, 11 \u00bc x 15 \u00bc inches, 1934.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before they teamed up in 1943 to famously educate a New York Times critic about developments in American modernism, writing, \u2018We favor the simple expression of complex thought,\u2019 Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb worked in a style vastly different from the models of abstraction each would come to pioneer. \u00a0A joint show at 125 Newbury &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/21\/mark-rothko-in-gottlieb-rothko-at-125-newbury\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Rothko in &#8216;Gottlieb\/Rothko&#8217; at 125 Newbury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[10069,1569,1571,11416,11415,856,33,7567,171],"class_list":["post-12513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-125-newbury","tag-bathers","tag-beach","tag-gottlieb-rothko","tag-mark-rothko","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-tribeca","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3fP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12515,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions\/12515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}