As part of their contemporary art auction in May, Sotheby’s New York will be selling four Abstract Expressionist works by Joan Mitchell. The group of paintings, said Lucius Elliott, Sotheby’s head of ...

There are currently two exhibitions of Joan Mitchell’s paintings and drawings on the same Chelsea street. Taken together, they offer an extended examination of a painter’s process as her sensibilities ...

An intriguing element of Mitchell’s work is how her background informed it. She was a championship skater at age seventeen, and you can feel that lyrical as well as muscular movement in her paintings.

Joan Mitchell, “Minnesota” (1980), oil on canvas in four parts102 1/2 x 244 1/4 inches, © Estate of Joan Mitchell, Collection of the Joan Mitchell Foundation ...

From pieces that played an influential role in the male-dominated New York School to nature-imbued paintings created in the French countryside, the abstract artwork of Joan Mitchell took on new lives ...

To an artist, “influence” can be a dirty word. Influence suggests imitation, derivation. Admitting influence questions every artist’s highest aspiration: originality. Of course Joan Mitchell ...

18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm.) Joan Mitchell, renowned for her contribution to the Abstract Expressionist movement, created a body of work celebrated for its vigorous brushwork, vibrant palette, and ...

Turning 25 this year, Tate Modern in London has much to celebrate, but no birthday is complete without a few presents. Today, the museum announced that it has been given a monumental triptych by the ...

Joan Mitchell in quotes - the famous artist on her abstract painting and her life in the United States, later in France - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in American art ...

Joan Mitchell dismissed her works on paper—even painting-scale pastels of four-foot dimensions—as “lady paintings.” Keeping faith with her subject, Jane Livingston, the guest curator of the Whitney’s ...

The artist’s organization said it rejected requests from the fashion company to use the artworks in handbag ads, but the luxury brand used them anyway. By Zachary Small The Joan Mitchell Foundation ...