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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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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1959
Untitled
January 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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La Chatiere https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/la-chatiere-1960
La Chatiere
January 18, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Sides of a River I http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mitchell-sides-of-a-river-i-p12147
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
January 18, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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Trees I https://collections.artsmia.org/art/105486/
two separate sheets; abstract images; L image has lines and squiggles, with mainly vertical black lines at R of sheet with thick yellow horizontal zigzag-like marks behind; R image has heavy black marked areas at L of sheet with red thin arcs and lines at R; both sheets are black, yellow and red on white; framed together A leading American painter and printmaker, Joan Mitchell was a contemporary of Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell among the artists of the so-called second generation of the Abstract Expressionists. She is widely regarded as one of the supreme colorists of that movement. Her lyrical abstractions are generally inspired by actual entities found in nature, such as fields, wooded landscapes, or studies of flowers. Commenting on Mitchell's work, art critic E.C. Goossen noted, "The Abstract Expressionist generation out of which she came was forever searching for abstract subject matter with transcendent implications, even though it professed to believe that art was its own message... But unlike those contemporary painters who 'discover' their subject in the process of painting, Mitchell works from an idea and builds on it." On this, critic Jed Perl remarked, "The best Mitchells are authentically civilized experiences. Our appetites are focused and clarified. Her colors are the beautiful colors of the world: tans of flesh and greens of landscape, but also the purple of the iris and the tawny yellow of the pear." A prolific printmaker, Mitchell produced more than 200 editioned prints during her lifetime, collaborating with master printers at some of the world's leading print workshops.
January 17, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Ladybug https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/ladybug-1957
Ladybug
January 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Cover from The Poems http://www.moma.org/collection/works/11562
Gift of Richard Miller
January 17, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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Title page from The Poems http://www.moma.org/collection/works/11564
Gift of Richard Miller
January 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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In-text plate (folio 4) from Poems http://www.moma.org/collection/works/10616
Gift of Tyler Graphics in memory of Joan Mitchell
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Ici https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/26230/
Ici
January 16, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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Plate (folio 16) from The Poems http://www.moma.org/collection/works/11567
Gift of Richard Miller
January 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1950
Untitled
January 15, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1960
Untitled
January 15, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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Plate (folio 11) from The Poems http://www.moma.org/collection/works/11566
Gift of Richard Miller
January 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Untitled http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79712
Gift of The Estate of Joan Mitchell
January 14, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Heel, Sit, Stay https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/heel-sit-stay-1977
Heel, Sit, Stay
January 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Hemlock https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/hemlock-1956
Hemlock
January 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Posted https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/posted-1977
Posted
January 13, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Sunflowers II https://collections.artsmia.org/art/113158/
diptych, framed together; abstract images of painterly, zigzag and swirling lines in red, green, dark blue and black; b has concentration of wide blue marks at top center
January 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1979
Untitled
January 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Le Chemin des Ecoliers https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/le-chemin-des-ecoliers-1960
Le Chemin des Ecoliers
January 12, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1968
Untitled
January 11, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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La Grande Vallée XVI, Pour Iva https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/la-grande-vall-e-xvi-pour-iva-1983
La Grande Vallée XVI, Pour Iva
January 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1951-1
Untitled
January 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Low Water https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/low-water-1969
Low Water
January 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/untitled-1992
Untitled
January 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM