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, ...

Joan Mitchell with her dog Georges du Soleil in Springs, New York, ca. 1953 (Photograph by Barney Rosset, Joan Mitchell Foundation Archives. © Joan Mitchell ...

"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 ...

Joan Mitchell, “Minnesota” (1980), oil on canvas in four parts102 1/2 x 244 1/4 inches, © Estate of Joan Mitchell, Collection of the Joan Mitchell Foundation ...

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 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Joan Mitchell, 'Sans neige' (1969). Collection of the Carnegie Museum of ...

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 ...

In 1981, the late American Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell appeared in the pages of Vogue wearing a black leather blazer, cornflower blue turtleneck sweater, and a pair of rust-colored pants. Her ...

The Art, Design & Architecture Museum joins in the international centennial celebration of the birth of artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) with a spotlight exhibition of her work in the permanent ...