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"Perhaps if I hadn't had to fight, I would have quit," the artist Joan Mitchell once said. "I don't know. I doubt it, though." Mitchell's work may have been born out of struggle, but there is no ...

In the accompanying profile, art critic Barbara Rose remarked on the fact that Mitchell refused to remove her glasses, “even to be photographed”—adding that the “high degree of discipline in ...

Richard D. Marshall papers, 1969-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and ...

The dense webs, clusters and tangles of color seen in Joan Mitchell’s paintings evoke everything from a lake to a poem to a city scene to something more abstract. As the American artist wrote to a ...

For fans of abstract art, Joan Mitchell is in the all-time pantheon — as good or greater than Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko or any of the other titans whose names are synonymous with non-figurative ...

A new exhibition shows the artist going deeper into the blues, greens and yellows of the French countryside, and into the act of painting itself. By Roberta Smith The painter Joan Mitchell, who died ...

Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was a fiery abstractionist who rose to fame in the male-dominated post-World War II art world. The New York-based Joan Mitchell Foundation, established in 1993 as ongoing art ...

Whether stepping foot inside an art museum for the first time or a lifelong connoisseur, visitors to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s historic Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) exhibition will find ...