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 ...

The Joan Mitchell Center, a $12.5 million artist retreat, will open in the 7 th Ward on Saturday (Aug. 22). Select artists from New Orleans and across the country will soon be working and living on ...

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 ...

The Joan Mitchell Foundation, a wealthy New York art philanthropy, came to town in the aftermath of the 2005 storm and flood and spread around hundreds of thousands of dollars to artists and art ...

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 ...

Co-organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Joan Mitchell follows the career of the internationally renowned artist who attained critical acclaim 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 ...

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 ...

Two slender vertical lines outlined in green are smack dab in the center of “To the Harbormaster,” a monumental abstract painting by the artist Joan Mitchell on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art.