Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell ( born February 12, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois; † 30 October 1992 in Paris) was an American painter. She is a representative of the Abstract Expressionism.
Life
Joan Mitchell studied Fine Art at Smith College in Northampton (MA), as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Columbia University in New York, among others 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 allowed her a scholarship to study in Paris. In 1949 she married in France the publisher Barney Rosset ( Grove Press). Back in the USA, Mitchell turned to the avant-garde painting and was in the early 1950s as one of the leading artists of the New York School. She was one of the very few female member of the Artists ' Club of Downtown living painter. In 1952 she separated from Rosset.
During a stay in France she learned in 1955 the Canadian painter Jean -Paul Riopelle, with whom she lived until 1979 together, first in Paris and later in Vetheuil. In 1959 Joan Mitchell was a participant of the documenta II in Kassel.
Joan Mitchell died in 1992 in France, where she had spent much of her life. Since 1993, the " Joan Mitchell Foundation " awards and stipends to painters, sculptors and artists' groups.
Solo exhibitions (selection )
- 2002, The Paintings of Joan Mitchell, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
- 2003, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham ( AL), USA
- 2004, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- 2006, A Survey 1952-1992, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- 2008 Retrospective, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany