'Joan Mitchell', 1969
RARE Vintage French Exhibition Poster
Mitchell received her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before establishing herself as a formidable talent in postwar New York's avant-garde scene. In 1951, her work was exhibited alongside that of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Hans Hoffman in the celebrated 'Ninth Street Show', which marked the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism within the development of modern art. Exemplifying the ideals of the New York School, Mitchell's paintings wager all on the expressive potential of the painterly mark itself, freed from the constraints of traditional representation. Given the macho posturing for which the movement's adherents have earned a reputation – almost all of them were men – Joan Mitchell's prowess in this milieu is all the more remarkable. She has since been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions, and examples of her paintings and editioned prints hang in nearly all major public collections of modern art.
Mitchell left New York and the United States for France in 1959. After spending the better part of a decade in Paris, she relocated to Vétheuil, France in 1968, a town on the Seine about 40 miles north of the capital. There in her studio she embarked upon a body of work whose subject matter derives from the sunflowers and natural beauty that thrive in the golden sunlight of the Seine valley. She would return to this source material periodically throughout the rest of her career.
Joan Mitchell is the only female artist to be included in the United States Postal Service (USPS) Stamp Program's 'Abstract Expressionists'. This series of stamps honors the artistic innovations and achievements of 10 abstract expressionists, a group of artists who revolutionized art during the 1940s and 1950s and moved the U.S. to the forefront of the international art scene for the first time. The stamps went on sale March 11, 2010.
SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009
'Extraordinary Editions: Artist's Books of the 20th Century, Part II, 1950-2000' (group exhibition), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), Minneapolis, MN
'Joan Mitchell: Drawings', Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
'Before Again' (group exhibition), Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
'Influences of Nature on Abstraction' (group exhibition), JH Muse Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
'Joan Mitchell: A Discovery of the New York School', Musée des Impressionismes, Giverny, France
'Joan Mitchell: Sunflowers', Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
'elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collections of the Centre Pompidou' (group exhibition), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
'Joan Mitchell: A Discovery of the New York School', Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy
'Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence' (group exhibition), Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
'Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976' (group exhibition), Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2008
'Joan Mitchell: A Discovery of the New York School', Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
'Joan Mitchell: Works: Sunflowers', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY
'Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976' (group exhibition), Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
'De Kooning, Mitchell, Richter: Paintings from the 1980s' (group exhibition), Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, NY
'Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976' (group exhibition), The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
'Joan Mitchell: Paintings & Pastels 1973 - 1983', Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
'Significant Form, The Persistence of Abstraction' (group exhibition), Maly Manege State Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
'Monet, Kandinsky, Rothko and the Aftermath: Paths of Abstract Painting' (group exhibition), BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
'Action Painting' (group exhibition), Beyeler Museum, Basel, Switzerland
'Empires and Environments' (group exhibition), Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2007
'Abstract Expressionist Prints' (group exhibition), Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
'The Passionate Gesture Works' (group exhibition), Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'Joan Mitchell: Leaving America', Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
'Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper 1956 - 1992', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY
'Joan Mitchell: The Last Prints', Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY
2006
'Woman's Work: Large Scale Paintings 1970-1990' (group exhibition), Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
'Joan Mitchell: A Survey, 1952 - 1992', Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
'Joan Mitchell: Paintings, Pastels and Etchings, 1962 - 1991', Eaton Fine Art, Inc., West Palm Beach, FL
'Joan Mitchell: Prints from the Foundation', Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY
2005
'Joan Mitchell: Frèmicourt Paintings 1960-61', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY
'Joan Mitchell: Sketchbook 1941 - 1951', Francis M. Naumann, New York, NY
'Quartet: Johns, Kelly, Mitchell, Motherwell' (group exhibition), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2004
'Joan Mitchell Larger than Life: Lithographs from the 1980s and 1990s', Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
'The Paintings of Joan Mitchell', The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
2003
'The Paintings of Joan Mitchell', Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (MAMFW), Fort Worth, TX
'The Paintings of Joan Mitchell', Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2002
'The Paintings of Joan Mitchell', Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
'The Paintings of Joan Mitchell', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
'Joan Mitchell: Petit', Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
'Joan Mitchell: The Presence of Absence', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY
'Joan Mitchell: Working with Poets', Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
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