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   Mark Rothko

   Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz (Latvian: Marks Rotko); September 25, 1903–February 25, 1970), was a Latvian-born American painter. ... In late 1935, Rothko joined with Ilya Bolotowsky, Ben-Zion, Adolph Gottlieb, Lou Harris, Ralph Rosenborg, Louis Schanker and Joseph Solman to form "The Ten" (Whitney Ten Dissenters), whose mission (according to a catalog from a 1937 Mercury Gallery show) was "to protest against the reputed equivalence of American painting and literal painting."
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   Louis Schanker

   In 1935 he and others (Ilya Bolotowsky, Ben-Zion, Marcus Rothkowitz (later, Mark Rothko), Adolph Gottlieb, Joe Solomon, Tschacbasov, Lou Harris, and Ralph Rosenborg) formed a group called The Ten [Whitney Dissenters] that protested the lack of support for American abstract artists by the Whitney Museum which concentrated on representational art. ... Articles with hCards

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