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Boston Globe: In this early Rothko, we glimpse an artist embraced by friendships that helped him learn his own ethereal language

‘Rothko looked out and saw a landscape, indistinct, misted, veiled and changeable, ever changeable’ By Murray Whyte |...

The Atlantic: The Painter Who Shaped Rothko

The usual story is that Milton Avery mentored, then was eclipsed by, the famed abstract expressionist. But it...

WBUR: Cape Ann Museum gifted Rothko painting that depicts Gloucester

By Katie Cole and Artemisia Luk | August 24, 2026   The Cape Ann Museum added its first...

Gloucester Daily Times: Son gifts Rothko work of Gloucester Harbor to museum

By Gail McCarthy | August 22, 2026 Mark Rothko’s “Untitled (wharf, Gloucester, Massachusetts),” a watercolor and gouache on...

Palmer Magazine: Art On The Road: The Collection of Janet and William “Wilber” Ellery James

By Whitney Schott | August 21, 2026 Palm Beachers may recognize the names Janet & William “Wilber” Ellery James for...

Boston Globe: A Rothko gives the Cape Ann Museum a Rothko

By Mark Feeney | August 20, 2026 Mark Rothko, “Untitled (wharf, Gloucester, Massachusetts),” 1934.© 2026 Kate Rothko Prizel...

Boston Art Review: “Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea” Shows How Three Midcentury Greats Were Shaped by the Shore and One Another

By David Curcio | August 18, 2026 Gloucester’s Cape Ann Museum reopens with a major exhibition that’s a...

Jewish Journal: See ‘Avery, Gottlieb and Rothko: By the Sea’

By Ethan Forman | August 13, 2026 A gallery at the Cape Ann Museum for the show “Avery,...

PBS News: Exhibition reveals how summers by the sea shaped three great American painters

Chronicle 5 WCVB: Rare paintings featured in Cape Ann Museum’s newest exhibition