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Joan Mitchell

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Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) was active/lived in New York, Illinois / France.  Joan Mitchell is known for Abstract expressionist painting, modernist figure.

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 A leading figure of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists in New York City, Joan Mitchell said that although her paintings seemed total abstractions, they were, in fact, "about a feeling that comes to me from the outside, the landscape."

She distinguished herself from other Abstract Expressionists because she had a pre-established design, a single image, to anchor her painting rather than leaving the result to subconscious, totally emotion-based expression.

Mitchell was born and raised in Chicago by parents who were wealthy and socially prominent. Her father was a successful doctor, and her mother a poet, and both supported her apparent early art talent. She attended Frances Parker School, a private high school whose faculty encouraged her interest in painting. For two years, 1942 to 1944, she enrolled in Smith College but was unsettled because she wanted to focus more on art. She transferred to the Chicago Art Institute, earning a B.F.A. in 1948 and an M.F.A   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12814 characters.]  Artist bio

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

.  askART lists Joan Mitchell in 3 of its research Essays. Joan Mitchell has 5 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Joan Mitchell available:    Helen Frankenthaler,  Willem de Kooning,  Robert Burns Motherwell,  Hans Hofmann,  Conrad Marca-Relli,  Kenneth Noland,  Richard Diebenkorn,  Franz Josef Kline,  Lee Krasner,  John Angus Chamberlain,  Philip Guston,  Morris Louis,  Adolph Gottlieb,  Richard Pousette-Dart,  Ellsworth Kelly,  Cy Twombly,  Norman Bluhm,  Theodoros S Stamos,  Wayne Thiebaud,  Arshile (Vosdanig Manoog Adoian) Gorky,  David (Roland) Smith,  Frank Stella,  Ed Ruscha,  Claes Thure Oldenburg



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Facts about Joan Mitchell

   Publications  Book References:  102
Magazine References:  38

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38 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Joan Mitchell
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques Market Buzz May 2005 Editor, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Front Page September 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art-Talk Auctions: Post War and Contemporary June 2004 Editors, Art Talk Yes
ARTnews Art Market April 2004 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Front Page January 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Art Market January 2004 Editors, ARTnews No
Art & Auction auction reviews December 2003 Tully, Judd Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk September 2003 Editor, ARTnews Yes
American Art Review Art on View August 2003 Editors, American Art Review Yes
Art & Antiques Memories of Mitchell June 2003 Kramer, Hilton Yes
Art & Auction Principals of Design; Geoffrey Brad May 2003 Mason, Brook S Yes
Art & Antiques Driven to Abstraction March 2003 Arbitman, Karen Jones No
ARTnews Who Are the Great Women Artists? March 2003 Landi, Ann Yes
Art & Antiques Art Crimes February 2003 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
Art & Antiques When East Came West February 2003 Gomez, Edward M Yes
ARTnews Art Market, "A Great, Great Fair" February 2003 Pollack, Barbara Yes
Art-Talk NewYork? New York! January 2003 Bass, Ruth Yes
ARTFORUM Best of 2002, A Special Issue December 2002 Editors, Artforum Yes
Art in America Expressing the Abstract December 2002 Kalina, Richard Yes
ARTnews How are Critics Spoke November 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Antiques 100 Top Treasures November 2002 Masello, Page, Goldstein Yes
ARTnews Reviews: Joan Mitchell October 2002 Nadelman, Cynthia Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews: Joan Mitchell September 2002 Richardson, Brenda Yes
Art & Auction Datebook August 2002 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
ARTFORUM Preview Summer 2002 May 2002 Editors, Artforum Yes
Art & Antiques Art Intuition May 2002 McGoon, James Yes
Art & Antiques Contemporary Harmony May 2001 Lewis, Janie N. Yes
American Art Review 20th Century American Art October 2000 Robertson, Bruce Yes
Art & Antiques Chelsea Dawning May 2000 Kagan, Dick Yes
ARTnews Living With Art: Blake Byrne April 1998 Clothier, Peter Yes
ARTnews Art News Flash Back, Flash Forward November 1997 Editors, Art News No
American Artist Nuts & Bolts June 1997 Moss, E Lynne Yes
The Magazine Antiques Tell Me A Story May 1997 Ivry, Benjamin Yes
American Artist Methods and materials July 1996 Weingrod, Carmi Yes
Art & Auction In the Galleries April 1996 Editors, Art and Auction No
Art & Auction In the Galleries March 1996 Editors, Art and Auction No
ARTnews Braving the 1995 Biennial March 1995 Kertess, Klaus Yes
Art in America In the Eye of the Tiger March 1995 Scott, Bill Yes
102 Book References for Joan Mitchell
Year Author Title Pages Color
2018 Gabriel, Mary Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine De Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler 1000 Yes
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 360 Yes
2011 Albers, Patricia Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter 514 Yes
2009 Perl, Jed New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-century 656 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2002 Livingston, Jane The Paintings of Joan Mitchell 220 Yes
2000 Herskovic, Marika New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists 393 Yes
2000 Skold, Stacey (compiler) Art Enterprises: Selections from the Collection 195 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1999 Seidner, David Artists at Work Inside the Studios of Today's Most Celebrated Artists 0 No
1998 Galt, Margot Fortunato Turning the Feather Around, My Life in Art 205 Yes
1997 Kertess, Klaus Joan Mitchell 204 Yes
1997 Lucie-Smith, Edward Visual Arts in the 20th Century 400 Yes
1997 The Dayton Art Institute American Art From the Dicke Collection 264 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Ratcliff, Carter The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art 352 Yes
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1995 Fuchs, Rudi/Adam D Weinberg Views from Abroad European Perspectives on American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 127 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1994 Altshuler, Bruce The Avant-Garde in Exhibition New Art in the 20th Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 288 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Ashbery, John Joan Mitchell 1992
(Exhibition catalog)		 42 Yes
1993 Beckett, Wendy The Mystical Now Art and the Sacred 160 Yes
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Pisano, Ronald G Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Ashbery, John Reported Sightings Art Chronicles 419 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Robert Mitchell Gallery Joan Mitchell
(Exhibition catalog)		 76 Yes
1988 Beckett, Wendy Contemporary Women Artists 128 Yes
1988 Bernstock, Judith E Joan Mitchell 227 Yes
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Field, Richard S/Ruth E Fine A Graphic Muse Prints by Contemporary Women 163 Yes
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1987 National Museum of Women National Mus of Women in the Arts 253 Yes
1987 Sandler, Irving The Empire State Collection Art for the Public 214 Yes
1987 Schultz, Douglas (Intro) 125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox 264 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Rose, Barbara American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition) 170 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Schimmel, Paul Action, Precision The New Direction in New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Barnett, Vivian Endicott The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980 526 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Cathcart, Linda L American Painting of the 1970s
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Sandler, Irving The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties 366 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Johnson, Ellen H Modern Art and the Object A Century of Changing Values 240 No
1976 Munro, Eleanor Originals:American Women Artists 528 Yes
1975 Rosenberg, Harold Art on the Edge Creators and Situations 303 No
1975 Smith College One Hundred/An Exhibition to Celebrate the Centenial Year
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Frankenstein, Alfred Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 Yes
1974 Tucker, Marcia Joan Mitchell
(Exhibition catalog)		 47 Yes
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Solomon, Elke M American Drawings 1963-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1972 Gruen, John The Party's Over Now Reminiscences of the Fifties (New York) 282 No
1972 Harithas, James Joan Mitchell My Five Years in the Country 33 Yes
1972 Rosenberg, Harold The De-definition of Art Action Art to Pop to Earthworks 256 No
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1970 Fondation Maeght L'art Vivant aux Etats-Unis
(Exhibition catalog)		 164 Yes
1968 Ashton, Dore; Donald B. Goodall, George NcNeil and Louis Finkelstein Painting As Painting 40 Yes
1967 Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art Two Decades of American Painting Gendai Amerika Kaiga Ten 81 Yes
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1963 McCoubrey, John W American Tradition in Painting 128 No
1962 Goodrich, Lloyd/Edward Bryant Forty Artists under Forty From the Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1961 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists
(Exhibition catalog)		 1961 No
1960 Walker Art Center 60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 Yes
1959 Friedman, B H School of New York Some Younger Artists 84 Yes
1958 Baur, John I H Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1957 Seuphor, Michel Dictionary of Abstract Painting with a History of Abstract Painting 305 Yes
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