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 ...

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.

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 ...

Joan Mitchell, “Minnesota” (1980), oil on canvas in four parts102 1/2 x 244 1/4 inches, © Estate of Joan Mitchell, Collection of the Joan Mitchell Foundation ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Britain's Tate Modern art museum on Thursday unveiled one of the most significant gifts it has received in years – a masterpiece by an American abstract expressionist that hung for years on a bedroom ...

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 ...

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.

Lynne Yamamoto, associate professor of art, recently received a Painters and Sculptors Grant in the amount of $25,000 from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. The Joan Mitchell Foundation was established in ...