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Joan Mitchell

(American, 1925–1992)

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Joan Mitchell

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Biography

Timeline

1925
Born in Chicago, IL on February 12
1942 - 1944
Attended Smith College, Northampton, MA
1942
Received high school diploma from the Francis Parker School in Chicago, IL, USA
1944 - 1947
BFA, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1948 - 1949
Traveling fellowship to France, Italy and Spain from The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
1950
MFA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Attended Columbia University, New York, NY
1955
Moved to France with Canadian-born French painter Jean Paul Riopelle
1992
Died in Paris, France on October 30th

Exhibitions

2019
Joan Mitchell Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Return to Nature (Zao Xue Han Zhang), Lévy Gorvy, Hong Kong
Abstract or Not, Olivier Malingue, London
Un art autre, Lévy Gorvy, London
The Collection of the Fondation. A Vision For Painting, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
2018
Joan Mitchell Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Joan Mitchell: Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century, 1953-1962, Cheim & Read, New York (solo exhibition)
Monet's Legacy, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan and the Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Hot Sun, Late Sun. Untamed Modernism, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, France
The Water Lilies: the American Abstract Art and the Last Monet, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London
2017 - 2019
Joan Mitchell Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2019:
Mitchell/Riopelle: Nothing in Moderation, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec [itinerary: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc, Landerneau, France]
2017
Joan Mitchell Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms, concurrently at Bryn Mawr College and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
The Horizontal, Cheim & Read, New York
Elaine, Let’s Get the Hell Out of Here, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York
Citings / Sightings, Lennon, Weinberg, New York
Blue, Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis
Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Off the Shelf: Modern & Contemporary Artists’ Books, Baltimore Museum of Art
Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947–1962, Hauser & Wirth, New York
2016
Joan Mitchell Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Joan Mitchell: Drawing Into Painting, Cheim & Read, New York (solo exhibition)
Postwar: Art between Pacific and Atlantic, 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Abstract Expressionism, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom [itinerary: Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain; Zao Wou-Ki Collectionneur, musée de l'Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France]
Women of Abstract Expressionism, Denver Art Museum, Colorado [itinerary: Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; Palm Springs Art Museum, California]
Petits & grands tableaux en souvenir de Jean Fournier, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
La Promenade, une balade dans le dépôt long du Cnap, Musée régional d’art contemporain Languedoc Roussillon Midi Pyrénées, Sérignan, France
Declaration, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado
From Kandinsky to Pollock. The Art of the Guggenheim Collections, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
2015
Joan Mitchell Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Joan Mitchell: At the Harbor and in the Grande Vallée, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York (solo exhibition)
Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria [itinerary: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany] (solo exhibition)
Joan Mitchell: The Sketchbook Drawings, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (solo exhibition)
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
A Few Days, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York
The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
What is a Line?, Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Women and Abstraction, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
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 gallery artists and invited guests, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York
Joan Mitchell: Trees, Cheim & Read, New York (catalogue), USA (solo)
De la pierre à l´écran, un parcou imprimé Centre de la Gravure et de l\'Image imprimée de la rue des Amours 10, La Louvière, Belgium
Why Nature? Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York (catalogue), USA
Mitchell, Bengils, Wilke, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA

Public Collections

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Osaka City Art Museum of Modern Art, Japan
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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