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February 26, 2015

Mark Rothko: Jewish Yale Dropout

The modernist painter Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz, came with his family from Russia to Portland, Oregon as a child. Academic success in high school won him a scholarship to Yale, where, in the early 1920s, he and other Jewish students confronted anti-Semitism and social exclusion. Unhappy, he left after two years, but during his time there he founded a journal that mocked the pretensions of Yale’s blue-blooded elite. Annie Cohen-Solal writes:

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