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Oct 30, 1992 · Joan Mitchell is known for the compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and sweeping gestural brushstrokes of her large and multi-paneled paintings.
Known for her sharp wit and irascible, often hard-living ways, Mitchell infused her art with the energy she derived from her ardent dedication to her career, her social restlessness, and the boundless intellectual curiosity that drove her life.
Joan Mitchell was an artist who explored abstraction’s capacity to evoke landscapes, memories, poetry, and music in her paintings, pastels, and lithographic prints. Mitchell’s childhood in Chicago was filled with art, poetry, and culture. She published a poem at age ten, was a champion figure skater, and began painting in second grade ...
(American, 1925–1992) Artworks. Biography. Dealers. Events. News. Monograph. Joan Mitchell was a leading American Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker. Working in an inventive gestural style, Mitchell’s works are characterized by their luminous layers of color and inspiration from nature, as seen in her hallmark work Sunflower (1972).
Mitchell was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Her paintings, drawings, and editioned prints can be seen in major museums and collections around the world, and have sold for record-breaking prices.
Joan Mitchell, an artist of international acclaim, was a steadfast proponent of painterly abstraction. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she attended Smith College and the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York City in 1947. There she enrolled in Hans Hofmann's painting classes and had her first exposure to the ideas and artists of the New ...
David Zwirner presents an exhibition of paintings by Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) focusing on the years 1979 to 1985, a significant and deeply generative period within her decades-long career, on view at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York.
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