Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell

American (Chicago 1925 - Paris 1992)

Cobble Hill

Color lithograph on white, handmade, TGL paper

Illuminating poem Cobble Hill by Nathan Kernan

Part of POEMS portfolio

19 ¼ x 28 3/8 inches

27 ½ x 36 ½ inches framed

Numbered and signed in pencil on Colophon page: 23/76 Joan Mitchell

And signed in pencil: Nathan Kernan

Published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, NY, 1992

Framed to museum conservation standards - floated on white acid-free mat, white frame and Optium acrylic.

Joan Mitchell stands out as the most important woman in the American Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 50s, exhibiting alongside titans Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman. Mitchell was born in Illinois, and studied at Smith College. On a scholarship trip to Europe in the late 1940s, Mitchell began a passionate and life-long affair with France, and divided the rest of her time between homes there and in New York.

Mitchell's work, although abstract, is grounded and inspired in landscape. Her work reflects the influence of Monet, Cézanne, and Van Gogh. As a result, her paintings have an organic flow to them, the seemingly scattered paint alluding to nature's equally nuanced order.