>Joan Mitchell A LITTLE RICH GIRL WHO PAINTED SPECTACULAR PICTURES by Michèle C. Cone. A new biography of Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell is both scholarly and sensationalistic.

When the public gets its first look at the Joan Mitchell Center Saturday, they will be visiting the only campus that Mitchell’s namesake foundation has created for artists-in-residence anywhere ...

Walking into a room of Jackson Pollock’s drip-paintings in 1951, Helen Frankenthaler said the experience was like moving to Lisbon with no Portuguese and feeling compelled to put down roots ...

Patricia Albers’s new biography of Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter, follows the artist from her privileged, WASPy Chicago upbringing through her tempestuous years on the 10th Street scene—where she became ...

Mitchell was a contrarian at heart (“Clement Greenberg said there should never be a central image, so I decided to make one”), and it’s hard not to love her for it.

Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria [itinerary: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany] (solo exhibition) Joan Mitchell: The Sketchbook Drawings, Museum Folkwang, ...

“Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life” (Alfred A. Knopf), by Patricia Albers: At age 12, Joan Mitchell decided to be a painter. She had shown a flair for writing and for painting, but he… ...

"Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Patricia Albers: At age 12, Joan Mitchell decided to be a painter. She had shown a flair for writing and for painting, but her father ...

Whether stepping foot inside an art museum for the first time or a lifelong connoisseur, visitors to the San Francisco Museum of Art’s historic Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) exhibition will find ...