"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 ...

Early in her career, Joan Mitchell was angered by a reviewer who compared the contours of her Abstract Expressionist paintings to the marks made by a figure skater on ice. Art was meant to liberate ...

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 ...

For fans of abstract art, Joan Mitchell is in the all-time pantheon — as good or greater than Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko or any of the other titans whose names are synonymous with non-figurative ...

“Abstract Expressionists: The Women” was first displayed at the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas. After leaving the Muscarelle, ...

During her lifetime artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) wasn't as celebrated as her male peers. But as evidenced in a new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the abstract expressionist created ...

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 ...

Rarely have I seen a show that so viscerally engages its audience. In “Joan Mitchell,” a thrilling retrospective of some 80 works at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I felt a giddy energy, ...

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...