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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A new Phaidon book, ‘Icons: 100 Extraordinary Objects from Sotheby’s History’, traces the auction house’s influence through its landmark sales, exploring how objects become cultural icons. The ...

The artist’s organization said it rejected requests from the fashion company to use the artworks in handbag ads, but the luxury brand used them anyway. By Zachary Small The Joan Mitchell Foundation ...