Joan Mitchell

by Nils Ohlsen

This publication on Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) allows us to rediscover an artist whose life’s work—with its anarchistic conception, urge for freedom, and energy-filled gestures and colors—is every bit as compelling as that of her male peers. Between 1950 and 1955, Mitchell, as a recognized member of the abstract expressionist circle, found her independent pictorial language. The timeless motif of her painting is always life in its purest as movement, transformation, constant action, reaction, and observation. The publication includes works from important American and French collections as well as from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York.

152 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2009