The 'Rothkat' pin is a feline interpretation of modern art legend, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) now reimagined as 'Rothkat.’ Mark Rothko, born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz, was a Latvian-born American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.