61 (Rust and Blue) is a 1953 painting by the Russian-American Abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko.

The work was first exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1961[1] but is now in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

[2] Similar to Rothko's other works from this period, No.

61 consists of large expanses of color with dark shades.

Rust and Blue was a part of the Color Field movement.