Four Darks in Red
{{Short description|Painting by Mark Rothko}}
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| title=Four Darks in Red
| artist=Mark Rothko
| year=1958
| medium=Oil on Canvas
| height_metric=259.1
| width_metric=294.6
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| museum=Whitney Museum of American Art
| city=New York
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Four Darks in Red is a 1958 painting by American painter Mark Rothko. It is currently in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.{{Cite web |url=https://whitney.org/collection/works/897 |title=Mark Rothko, Four Darks in Red |publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=August 27, 2020}}
Description
The painting is composed of four dark, rectangular forms set against a red field. This work, like Rothko's other paintings in the late 1950s, features a dark palette. Four Darks in Red precedes Rothko's Seagram murals, which share this work's red, maroon, and black hues.{{Cite web |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/rothko/rothko-room-guide/room-2-four-darks-red-1958 |title=Room 2: Four Darks in Red 1958 |publisher=The Tate |access-date=August 27, 2020}}
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Category:Paintings by Mark Rothko
Category:Paintings in the Whitney Museum of American Art
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