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1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube.
Currently, the frames listed will be only ship up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5" white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.
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NO.14 is an oil on canvas, inspired by the artwork with the same title by the Russian-American artist Mark Rothko. The distinctive approach to painting that Rothko undertook during his life is today deeply associated with big institutions, such as MOMA, which has a fair share of his work. Despite his abstract oeuvre, the painter’s beliefs were strongly related to the content of his works, and not only the formal aspect, as it was defended by critics of his time. After seeing Fra Angelico’s paintings, Rothko was both inspired and troubled; he wanted to create works that communicated complex human emotions, especially tragedy. NO. 14 is an excellent example of the restricted means employed by the painter, making forces of attraction and repulsion through his color fields.
The painter was from a family of immigrants who fled from their country afraid from the beginning of the 1st World War. Rothko had an outstanding education since he was young. After a brief amount of time after arriving in the US, he gained a scholarship to study at Yale. Rothko, who since then was tied to worker’s associations, found the Yale students vapid and uninspiring. He dropped out of the institution, moving to New York. There, he became a student in The New School for Design. He met Arshile Gorky, who became a kind of mentor to the American Abstract Expressionists and a great inspiration for Rothko himself. He also had classes with Max Weber, a Cubist, which left his influence in the painter’s early works.
Rothko became acquainted with Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman. At the time, the circle of painters emerged around Milton Avery, whose emphasis on the formal aspects of art and the embodiment of European influences were a fundamental inspiration for the emerging abstract painters. Part of the group formed The Ten, and defended creative freedom, and was against regionalist trends. Soon enough, Rothko had solo shows - he was never fond of exhibiting collectively - and from the early Surreal and even Social Realist works, which were already heavily stylized, his unique oeuvre started to form. Rothko played with many aspects of the figure, even incorporating mythological subjects, but by the influence of Clyfford Still, he settled on color field painting.
NO.14 is an oil on canvas. The picture was painted in a gestural way, which gives a tactile factor to the artist’s artworks. From the end of the 1940s until his death, the painter’s oeuvre seemed to go in the direction of restriction: forms became less abundant. In this case, there is an intense black background on which both the upper and bottom square rest. The different fields create different aesthetic sensations, the orange being a warm color while blue is a cold one. In this restricted visual dynamic, the color fields in real life give an idea of absorption, an almost magnetic force.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of NO.14, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of NO.14 that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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You may choose to purchase your painting framed, in which case, it will arrive "ready to hang". We offer more than 20 beautiful models, all hand finished and expertly assembled by our experienced framers.
Note that for safety reasons we can only frame up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached the framing option is automatically disabled.



If you are planning to frame your painting yourself, use an existing frame, or frame it locally, you may choose to order your painting with a stretching service, meaning that it will arrive mounted on wooden bars.
If you're considering not framing your painting at all, you may opt for a Gallery Wrap. The term Gallery Wrap refers to the way the canvas is stretched, which is by wrapping it around thick stretcher bars, about 1.5 inch thick, with the canvas being secured to the back rather than the sides of those bars.
All orders ship with UPS, FedEx or DHL and will arrive directly to your home or office. A tracking number will be emailed to you as soon as the order leaves our studio so you can track it online. All orders ship express and usually arrive within 4-5 days from the shipping date. Due to shipping restraints, many of our framed, stretched, and oversize paintings may take 6-21 days for arrival depending on the safest route determined by the postal service.
Unframed paintings are covered with a special protective film, are gently rolled and then placed inside a strong specially designed tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped and Framed paintings are covered with protective bubble wrap, separated by foam board and then carefully put into the cardboard box.