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 ...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Some merely canonize, while others—like those of ...

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 ...

Two slender vertical lines outlined in green are smack dab in the center of “To the Harbormaster,” a monumental abstract painting by the artist Joan Mitchell on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

An intriguing element of Mitchell’s work is how her background informed it. She was a championship skater at age seventeen, and you can feel that lyrical as well as muscular movement in her paintings.

To an artist, “influence” can be a dirty word. Influence suggests imitation, derivation. Admitting influence questions every artist’s highest aspiration: originality. Of course Joan Mitchell ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) --In honor of Women's History Month, WJZ is giving you an inside look at the newest exhibits adorning the walls of our iconic Baltimore Museum of Art. One of the exhibits, "All Due ...

Whether stepping foot inside an art museum for the first time or a lifelong connoisseur, visitors to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s historic Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) exhibition will find ...

Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was a star of the Abstract Expressionist movement, a peer of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. But she was also an athlete—a champion figure skater—and that athleticism ...

Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria [itinerary: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany] (solo exhibition) Joan Mitchell: The Sketchbook Drawings, Museum Folkwang, ...

Joan Mitchell with her dog Georges du Soleil in Springs, New York, ca. 1953 (Photograph by Barney Rosset, Joan Mitchell Foundation Archives. © Joan Mitchell ...

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 ...