Joan Mitchell

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Joan Mitchell (born February 12, 1925 in Chicago , Illinois , † October 30, 1992 in Paris ) was an American painter. She is a representative of Abstract Expressionism .

Life

Joan Mitchell studied fine arts at Smith College in Northampton (MA), as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia University in New York a . a. with Hans Hofmann . She was influenced by Van Gogh and Cezanne, Matisse and Kandinsky, and in New York by Willem de Kooning , Franz Kline and Philip Guston .

From 1948 to 1950, a scholarship enabled her to study in Paris . In 1949 she married the publisher Barney Rosset (Grove Press) in France. Back in the USA , Mitchell turned to avant-garde painting and was considered one of the leading artists at the New York School in the early 1950s . She was one of the few female members of the Artists' Club of Downtown painters. In 1952 she separated from Rosset.

During a stay in France in 1955 she met the Canadian painter Jean-Paul Riopelle , with whom she lived until 1979, first in Paris and later in Vétheuil . In 1959 Joan Mitchell was a participant in documenta II in Kassel . In 1979 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Joan Mitchell died in France in 1992. Since 1993 the Joan Mitchell Foundation has given awards and grants to painters, sculptors and groups of artists.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1953–1958: Stable Gallery , New York, USA
  • 1968: Recent Paintings , Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1971: Blue Series 1970-1971 , Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1972: My Five Years in the Country , Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (NY), USA
  • 1974: Whitney Museum , New York, USA
The Arts Club of Chicago , Chicago, USA
  • 1976 & 1977: New Paintings , Xavier Fourcade Inc, New York, USA
  • 1982: Choix des Peintures 1970-1982 , Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , France
  • 1984: La Grande Vallée , Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
  • 1985: The Sixties , Xavier Fourcade Inc, New York, USA
  • 1988: The Paintings of Joan Mitchell: Thirty-Six Years of Natural Expressionism , Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (NY), USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo (NY), USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA
Joan Mitchell in Vétheuil , Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, USA
Musee des Beaux Arts de Nantes , Nantes, France
Phillips Collection , Washington, USA
  • 2006: A Survey 1952–1992 , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2008: Retrospective , Kunsthalle in Emden , Emden, Germany
  • 2010: The roaring fifties . Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • 2015: Retrospective. Her Life and Paintings. Kunsthaus Bregenz , Bregenz, Austria
  • 2015/16: Joan Mitchell. Retrospective. Her Life and Paintings , Museum Ludwig , Cologne

literature

  • Action painting . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2008
  • Joan Mitchell. Works on Paper - 1956-1992. Steidl Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521468-3 .
  • Klaus Kertess: Joan Mitchell. Harry N. Abrams, New York 1997, ISBN 978-0-81094297-4 .
  • Jane Livingston: The Paintings of Joan Mitchell. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-52023570-0 .
  • Helen Molesworth: Joan Mitchell: Leaving America, New York to Paris, 1958-1964. Hauser & Wirth, London 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521-490-4 .
  • Nils Ohlsen: Joan Mitchell: companion of Jackson Pollock. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3868280074
  • Gerd Presler : Joan Mitchell. The quality of the light. In: Gerd Presler: The sketchbook. A stroke of luck in art history. Weingarten / Baden 2017, pp. 154–155 (e-book: pp. 107–108, with 6 color sketches).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Joan Mitchell. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ Gallery Thomas Modern
personal data
SURNAME Mitchell, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, representative of Abstract Expressionism
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1992
Place of death Paris , France