Joan Mitchell was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. Originally from Chicago, she took art classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. She moved to New York and had her first solo exhibition in 1952 before moving and settling in France. She mostly used oil paints on primed canvas with strong, suggestive brushwork. Some of her paintings extend to several panels. Her painting, “Untitled” sold at auction for $11.9 million in 2014, which was a record at that time for a work by a female artist.
Books
Celebrate the creative process of pioneering American abstract painter Joan Mitchell and the 21 massive paintings she created through a harmonious, colorful blend of drips, splashes and brushstrokes, in a poetic picture book about her career.
A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that shaped her.
A reconstruction of the major Abstract Expressionist’s life includes coverage of her debutante years in the Midwest, her marriage to Barney Rosset, Jr. and her pioneering achievements as a woman in male-dominated artistic circles.
Joan Mitchell was one of the few women among the first-rank Abstract Expressionist painters.
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