Patricia Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life, Knopf, 2011, 544 pp., $40. There are many ways of writing about the life of a famous artist. One is the scholarly way, another is the fawning, ...

"Perhaps if I hadn't had to fight, I would have quit," the artist Joan Mitchell once said. "I don't know. I doubt it, though." Mitchell's work may have been born out of struggle, but there is no ...

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 ...

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.

Joan was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She received her bachelor’s degree from Parsons The New School of Design in New York City. She was an accomplished artist whose works have been ...

At the Georgia Museum of Art, preservation has moved out of the back room and into the spotlight. This fall, visitors can watch Atlanta-based conservator Larry Shutts at work on Joan Mitchell’s ‘Close ...

Yesterday, the Joan Mitchell Foundation (JMF) sent Louis Vuitton a cease-and-desist letter, alleging that the French luxury brand committed copyright infringement when it featured the late Abstract ...

The difference between two similar looking paintings can be millions of dollars. Can you spot the most expensive ones from New York’s recent auction week? By Zachary Small and Josephine Sedgwick ...