Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell
A preeminent American Abstract Expressionist painter, Joan Mitchell developed a gestural vocabulary and a mastery of color that were singular among her peers. She took a synesthetic approach to landscapes and figures alike, conceiving each gesture to be a translation of a feeling stored in memory. She sought, in her words, “to paint what [nature] leaves me with.” Born in Chicago in 1925, Mitchell attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and spent a fellowship year in France before moving to New York in 1949. There, she joined the exclusive Eight Street Club and was included in the famous 9thStreet Show in 1951, which marked the ascendency of Abstract Expressionism. By the end of the ’50s, she was regularly exhibiting at Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery. In 1955, Mitchell began living part-time in Paris, and in 1968 she settled in the village of Vétheuil, northwest of Paris, where she worked continuously until her death in 1992. For the duration of her five-decade career, her commitment to gestural abstraction was unwavering.
Mitchell’s first institutional solo exhibition was held in 1972 at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. Subsequent museum presentations during her lifetime were held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1974, 1992); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1982); Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; and La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California; 1988–1989). In 2002, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, organized a retrospective of Mitchell’s work, which traveled to Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; and Des Moines Art Center, Iowa. In 2015, Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings was presented at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, and subsequently traveled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Artists
Alexander Calder
Enrico Castellani
Chung Sang-Hwa
Francesco Clemente
Dan Colen
Willem de Kooning
Lucio Fontana
Gego
Yves Klein
Jutta Koether
Seung-taek Lee
Robert Motherwell
Senga Nengudi
Roman Opalka
Adrian Piper
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Carol Rama
Martial Raysse
Peter Regli
Germaine Richier
Karin Schneider
Joel Shapiro
Kazuo Shiraga
Pierre Soulages
Pat Steir
Tu Hongtao
Günther Uecker
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- Alighiero Boetti
- Lee Bontecou
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- Mark Bradford
- Constantin Brancusi
- Cecily Brown
- Alberto Burri
- Sérgio Camargo
- Vija Celmins
- John Chamberlain
- Eduardo Chillida
- Lygia Clark
- George Condo
- Joseph Cornell
- Gino de Dominicis
- Nicolas de Staël
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- PETER DOIG
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- Helen Frankenthaler
- Lucian Freud
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- Brice Marden
- Agnes Martin
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- Fausto Melotti
- Eleanore Mikus
- Joan Miró
- Joan Mitchell
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- Piet Mondrian
- Paulo Monteiro
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- Bruce Nauman
- Barnett Newman
- Albert Oehlen
- Claes Oldenburg
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- Pablo Picasso
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- Rudolf Stingel
- Mark Tansey
- Mickalene Thomas
- James Turrell
- Cy Twombly
- Andy Warhol
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- Franz West
- Jonas Wood
- Christopher Wool