When it comes to an artist like Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), one could argue that she has been, in recent months, the beneficiary of an overdue art historical reckoning. The postwar painter, known for ...

"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 ...

Artist Joan Mitchell’s bold, lyrical canvases made her one of the defining voices of Abstract Expressionism — and one of the few women to claim an enduring place in the movement’s history. A century ...

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 ...

Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was a star of the Abstract Expressionist movement, a peer of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. But she was also an athlete—a champion figure skater—and that athleticism ...

Patricia Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life, Knopf, 2011, 544 pp., $40. There are many ways of writing about the life of a famous artist. One is the scholarly way, another is the fawning, ...

For the first time in nearly 20 years, the late Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell is the subject of a major U.S. museum show, bringing together more than 80 canvases at the San Francisco ...

At the Georgia Museum of Art, preservation has moved out of the back room and into the spotlight. This fall, visitors can watch Atlanta-based conservator Larry Shutts at work on Joan Mitchell’s ‘Close ...

Installation view of Joan Mitchell 100, on display at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara. (Ingrid Bostrom photo) Artist Joan Mitchell’s bold, lyrical canvases made her one of the ...