Editor's Note: Travel and accommodations for the author were provided by the Baltimore Museum of art. It only takes a few moments of being in the first gallery at the preview for the Joan Mitchell ...

When it comes to an artist like Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), one could argue that she has been, in recent months, the beneficiary of an overdue art historical reckoning. The postwar painter, known for ...

As part of their contemporary art auction in May, Sotheby’s New York will be selling four Abstract Expressionist works by Joan Mitchell. The group of paintings, said Lucius Elliott, Sotheby’s head of ...

Visual consumption today often puts a premium on hyper-proximity. Television and camera technology allow viewers to fixate on images down to every last pore and wrinkle, while the framing on phones ...

Christie’s is bringing two more major works to its 20th-century evening sale in New York next month that are each expected to break auction records for the artists, Richard Diebenkorn and Joan ...

SAN FRANCISCO — “Painting is like a sort of sickness, I think.” So says a gravel-voiced Joan Mitchell in a film included in the major retrospective of her work currently at the San Francisco Museum of ...

The fact that Mitchell’s creations appear to be working themselves back into the fluctuating core of auction trends is welcome, especially considering the impact of her artistic vision. Noël was ...

Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was a star of the Abstract Expressionist movement, a peer of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. But she was also an athlete—a champion figure skater—and that athleticism ...

Patricia Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life, Knopf, 2011, 544 pp., $40. There are many ways of writing about the life of a famous artist. One is the scholarly way, another is the fawning, ...

Figure Ground: Paintings and Prints by Joan Mitchell, Lithographs by Willem de Kooning, Sculptures by Raoul Hague, Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York Salon du Dessin: An exhibition of works on paper by ...