Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. …

Joan Mitchell’s primary medium was oil paint on canvas, although she also created drawings and prints. Over the course of nearly five decades, she established a singular visual vocabulary …

Joan Mitchell was an American painter known for her large abstract paintings made with colorful gestural brushstrokes. Her career spanned more than four decades and also included pastel …

Oct 30, 1992 · Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American "second generation" abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. She was a member of the American …

Oct 30, 1992 · Joan Mitchell is known for the compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and sweeping gestural brushstrokes of her large and multi-paneled paintings.

Her father, James Herbert Mitchell, a doctor and amateur artist, brought Mitchell and her sister to the Art Institute regularly as children. Mitchell grew especially enamored with the work of …

Throughout the 1950s, Mitchell developed her signature style: rhythmic counterposed lines and layered fields of color that became a language through which she communicated emotion and …

American painter Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago and rose to prominence as an Abstract Expressionist in the loose group of artists termed the New York School in the 1950s.

Apr 2, 2025 · Mitchell’s fierce sensuality and predilection for risk became subsumed into passionate compositions beginning in Paris, followed by the exquisitely poetic, oversized …

Joan Mitchell’s primary medium was oil paint on canvas, although she also created drawings and prints. Over the course of nearly five decades, she established a singular visual vocabulary …