Landscape with Trees and Hills [recto]

c. 1929 · Drawing

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Not on view at present

Where is “Landscape with Trees and Hills [recto]” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 11 days ago
In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
Source: The museum

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Details

Accession number: 1986.43.205.a

What it shows

Landscape Topographical

In the catalog

Drawings & watercolors Watercolour Modernism 20th century American

Sources

National Gallery of Art
Image: National Gallery of Art — © the artist or rights holder

In the life of Mark Rothko

The whole life

1928
First group show at the Opportunity Gallery
In 1928 Rothko and a group of young artists showed their work for the first time at the Opportunity Gallery: dark, moody expressionist interiors and urban scenes that critics and fellow artists received well.
1929–1952
Teaching children at the Brooklyn Jewish Center
From 1929 Rothko taught drawing, painting and clay sculpture part-time to schoolchildren at the Center Academy of the Brooklyn Jewish Center, where he remained until 1952.
early 1930s
Milton Avery and Adolph Gottlieb
In the early 1930s Rothko met Adolph Gottlieb and the circle around Milton Avery, including Barnett Newman, Joseph Solman, Louis Schanker and John Graham. According to Elaine de Kooning it was Avery who convinced Rothko that a professional artist’s life was possible; the friends vacationed together at Lake George and Gloucester, painting by day and talking about art in the evenings.

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