| National Gallery of Art presents installation of three Rothko Seagram murals |
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WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art presents a special installation of three of Mark Rothko's paintings made for the so-called Seagram Mural Project, timed to coincide with the presentation of John Logan's play Red at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater (January 20 to March 4), which dramatizes Rothko's struggle with the commission. Mark Rothko: Seagram Murals is on view in the Concourse galleries of the East Building from December 6, 2011, through August 15, 2012. These works became part of the Gallery's collection in the mid-1980s, as part of a vast gift of works from the Mark Rothko Foundation (now closed), making the Gallery the largest public repository of the artist's work. "We are pleased to present these paintings in conjunction with the Arena Stage's read full article
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