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Joan Mitchell
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Fan account of Joan Mitchell, an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.
1925-1992
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Wood, Wind, No Tuba http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79713
Gift of The Estate of Joan Mitchell
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1973
Untitled
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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In-text plate (folio 2) from Poems http://www.moma.org/collection/works/10613
Gift of Tyler Graphics in memory of Joan Mitchell
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1956
Untitled
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Ici https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/ici-1992
Ici
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The Poems http://www.moma.org/collection/works/11563
Gift of Richard Miller
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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My Landscape II https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/my-landscape-ii-1967
My Landscape II
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1959
Untitled
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Chord II http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mitchell-chord-ii-t12921
Presented by Jytte Dresing through The Merla Art Foundation 2009
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Merci https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/merci-1992
Merci
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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City Landscape https://www.artic.edu/artworks/86385/
Although influenced by Abstract Expressionist artists in New York in the early 1950s, Joan Mitchell did not prioritize self-expression: her often exuberant abstractions were “about landscape, not about me,” she once explained. Mitchell painted large, light-filled canvases animated by loosely applied skeins of bright color—here infused with the energy of a large metropolis. The title suggests a relationship between the painting’s network of pigments and the nerves or arteries of an urban space. The sense of spontaneity conveyed in City Landscape, however, belies Mitchell’s methods. Unlike many of her contemporaries, who were dubbed “action painters,” Mitchell worked slowly and deliberately. “I paint a little,” she said. “Then I sit and look at the painting, sometimes for hours. Eventually, the painting tells me what to do.” Gift of Society for Contemporary American Art
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Double page in-text plate (folios 5 verso and 6) from Poems http://www.moma.org/collection/works/10617
Gift of Tyler Graphics in memory of Joan Mitchell
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1951
Untitled
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1981
Untitled
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1952
Untitled
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1969
Untitled
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1977
Untitled
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Tondo https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/tondo-1991
Tondo
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1964-1
Untitled
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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La Chatiere https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/la-chatiere-1960
La Chatiere
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Trees https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/trees-1991
Trees
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Hemlock https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/hemlock-1956
Hemlock
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Low Water https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/low-water-1969
Low Water
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Poems https://collections.artsmia.org/art/50068/
Artist's book with eight color lithographs by Joan Mitchell and poetry by Nathan Kernan. Unbound in a pink paper wrapper from the artist's previously existing lithographs with blue printed title; housed in a burgundy cloth-covered portfolio box with pink handmade paper label and blue printed title. Near the end of her life, Joan Mitchell was asked by legendary print publisher Ken Tyler to collaborate on a book project with the American poet and writer Nathan Kernan (born 1950). Enthusiastic about the idea, Mitchell responded with a series of eight brilliantly colored abstract illuminations. Her boldly gestural images are not literal illustrations of Kernan's poems, but instead complement the poet's vivid imagery.
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Plate (folio 11) from The Poems http://www.moma.org/collection/works/11566
Gift of Richard Miller
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM