Joan mitchell lady painter
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Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter
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Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead. New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell, the 1950s
She was a steel heiress from the Midwest Chicago and Lake Forest (her grandfather built Chicago s bridges and worked for Andrew Carnegie). She was a daughter of the American Revolution Anglo-Saxon, Republican, Episcopalian.
She was tough, disciplined, courageous, dazzling, and went up against the masculine art world at its most entrenched, made her way in it, and disproved their notion that women couldn t paint.
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Joan Mitchell "is the first full-scale biography of the abstract expressionist painter who came of age in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s; a portrait of an outrageous artist and her struggling artist world, painters making their way in the second part of amerika s twentieth century.
As a young girl she was a champion figure skater, and though she lacked balance and coordination, accomplished one athletic
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Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter : a Life
“Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead.” —New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell, the 1950s
She was a steel heiress from the Midwest—Chicago and Lake Forest (her grandfather built Chicago’s bridges and worked for Andrew Carnegie). She was a daughter of the American Revolution—Anglo-Saxon, Republican, Episcopalian.
She was tough, disciplined, courageous, dazzling, and went up against the masculine art world at its most entrenched, made her way in it, and disproved their notion that women couldn’t paint.
Joan Mitchell is the first full-scale biography of the abstract expressionist painter who came of age in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s; a portrait of an outrageous artist and her struggling artist world, painters making their way in the second part of America’s twentieth century.
As a young girl she was a champion figure skater, and though she lacked balance and coordination, accomplished one athletic triumph after another,
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5 Fast Facts: Joan Mitchell
Impress your friends with fem fast facts about Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
1. High Achiever
As a young girl, Mitchell worked tirelessly to win her hard-to-please father’s approval. She was a published poet bygd age 10, a champion tennis player and diver, and a competitive figure skater. Mitchell was named “Figure Skating Queen of the Midwest” in 1942 and competed in the national championship that year, though she finished a disappointing fourth. After the loss, she vowed to only focus on one thing and do it well: art.
2. Precious Cargo
In 1949 Mitchell married her first husband, Barney Rosset, in Provence, France. The couple decided to make a life in New York and, instead of flying, booked a first-class suite aboard an ocean liner avfärd from Cannes because they had too much luggage—and too many paintings. Mitchell’s works were taken by rowboat to the fartyg and then care