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Fred Mitchell

Abstract, ca. 1955

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1923: Born: Meridian, MS
1942 - 1943: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (Scholastic Magazine Art Scholarship); met painter Philip Pearlstein
Drafted into the US army; taught mechanical drawing for the army in Maryland and Chicago
1946 - 1947: Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI, BFA
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; Columbia University, New York, NY; Atelier 17, NYC
Pepsi Cola Company (cash award of $1,500)
1948 - 1949: Academie de Belles Arti, Rome, ITALY
1948 - 1951: Lived and worked in Rome, Italy; Met several American painters including Philip Guston , Angelo Ippolito and John Heliker who made large influence on Mitchell's work.
Moved to Manhattan, NY and opened a painting studio in a loft in the seaport area along the East River known as Coenties Slip. Mitchell started an art school nearby in the old Seaman's Church Institute. During the ensuing years other artists moved into Coenties Slip lofts including Ellsworth Kelly (introduced to the area by Mitchell in 1951) Robert Indiana, Agnes Martin, Jack Youngerman, James Rosenquist.
1952: Fred Mitchell along with Angelo Ippolito and fellow artists Lois Dodd, Charles Cajori and William King organized Tanager Gallery on East 9th Street as an artist's cooperative gallery with a loan from painter Pearl Fine (Fine's father agreed to pay the gallery rent for a while to get it established).
1955 - 1956: Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI, MFA

2005: Noel Fine Art in Bronxville, NY (solo)
2003: David Findlay Jr Fine Art, in NYC (solo)
1993: "Coenties Slip" Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY. group exhibtion
1974: "Nine Coenties Slip Artists" The Whitney Museum of American Art, group exhibition.
1960: Howard Wise opened a second gallery in 1960 in New York City and Mitchell had two solo shows there.
: Solo exhibition, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1955: Mitchell returned to Cranbrook Academy to teach for several years while also exhibiting in New York and Cleveland as well as traveling back to Positano Italy.
1954: Solo exhibition, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
: Mitchell's oil painting 'Black White and Red' was included in the landmark Guggenheim Museum show 'Younger American Painters.' Traveled to Dallas MoA and Detroit Art Museum.
1953 - 1954: Stable Gallery Annual Exhibition, group exhibition
1953: Tanger Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1952: First New York solo show, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1950 - 1959: Mitchell exhibited at Howard Wise Gallery in Cleveland.
1947: The National Academy in New York City and traveled to The Rochester Memorial Art Museum
1942: Municipal Gallery, Jackson, MS (solo)

1977: In 1977 Mitchell organized an important exhibition and book on the subject of Franz Kline's early work entitled "Franz Kline: The Early Work As Signals" published by SUNY Binghamton University Art Gallery. The exhibition was presented at SUNY Binghamton University Art Gallery, Binghamton, NY and The Neuberger Art Museum, SUNY, Purchase New York.