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Fan account of Joan Mitchell, an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. 1925-1992 Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 1h

Poems www.moma.org/collection/works/10614

Gift of Tyler Graphics in memory of Joan Mitchell

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 5h

Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings www.moma.org/collection/works/125413

Gift of the artist

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 19h

Wood, Wind, No Tuba www.moma.org/collection/works/79713

Gift of The Estate of Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 22h

Ici www.slam.org/collection/objects/262…

Ici

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Riviere www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/ri…

Riviere

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Plate (folio 34 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings www.moma.org/collection/works/11173

Gift of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Publications

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

River www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/ri…

River

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

City Landscape www.artic.edu/artworks/86385

Although influenced by Abstract Expressionist artists in New York in the early 1950s, Joan Mitchell did not prioritize self-expression: her often exuberant abstractions were “about landscape, not about me,” she once explained. Mitchell painted large, light-filled canvases animated by loosely applied skeins of bright color—here infused with the energy of a large metropolis.
The title suggests a relationship between the painting’s network of pigments and the nerves or arteries of an urban space. The sense of spontaneity conveyed in City Landscape, however, belies Mitchell’s methods. Unlike many of her contemporaries, who were dubbed “action painters,” Mitchell worked slowly and deliberately. “I paint a little,” she said. “Then I sit and look at the painting, sometimes for hours. Eventually, the painting tells me what to do.”

Gift of Society for Contemporary American Art

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ici www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/ic…

Ici

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings www.moma.org/collection/works/97964

Gift of the artist

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sunflower IV www.moma.org/collection/works/60814

Janet K. Ruttenberg Fund

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Salut Tom www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/sa…

Salut Tom

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Minnesota www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/mi…

Minnesota

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sunflower III collections.artsmia.org/art/43577

A leading American painter and printmaker, Joan Mitchell was a contemporary of Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell and was widely regarded as one of the supreme colorists of the abstract expressionist movement. Her lyrical abstractions are generally based on actual physcial entities, such as landscapes or studies of flowers. Commenting on Mitchell's art, E.C. Goossen wrote: "The Abstract Expressionist generation out of which she came was forever searching for abstract subject matter with transcendent implications, even though it professed to believe that art was its own message... But unlike those contemporary painters who 'discover' their subject in the process of painting, Mitchell works from an idea and builds on it." Mitchell spent the last thirty years of her life in Paris, where she died in 1992.

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Lot www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/th…

The Lot

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Chord II www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mitche…

Presented by Jytte Dresing through The Merla Art Foundation 2009

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In-text plate (folio 3) from Poems www.moma.org/collection/works/10615

Gift of Tyler Graphics in memory of Joan Mitchell

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tournesols www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/to…

Tournesols

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Untitled (Blue) www.moma.org/collection/works/146160

Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky in honor of Maja Oeri

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sunflower III www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/su…

Sunflower III

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Plate (folio 16) from The Poems www.moma.org/collection/works/11567

Gift of Richard Miller

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Blue Territory www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/bl…

Blue Territory

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Le Chemin des Ecoliers www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/le…

Le Chemin des Ecoliers

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Girolata Triptych www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/gi…

Girolata Triptych

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trees I collections.artsmia.org/art/105486

two separate sheets; abstract images; L image has lines and squiggles, with mainly vertical black lines at R of sheet with thick yellow horizontal zigzag-like marks behind; R image has heavy black marked areas at L of sheet with red thin arcs and lines at R; both sheets are black, yellow and red on white; framed together
A leading American painter and printmaker, Joan Mitchell was a contemporary of Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell among the artists of the so-called second generation of the Abstract Expressionists. She is widely regarded as one of the supreme colorists of that movement. Her lyrical abstractions are generally inspired by actual entities found in nature, such as fields, wooded landscapes, or studies of flowers. Commenting on Mitchell's work, art critic E.C. Goossen noted, "The Abstract Expressionist generation out of which she came was forever searching for abstract subject matter with transcendent implications, even though it professed to believe that art was its own message... But unlike those contemporary painters who 'discover' their subject in the process of painting, Mitchell works from an idea and builds on it." On this, critic Jed Perl remarked, "The best Mitchells are authentically civilized experiences. Our appetites are focused and clarified. Her colors are the beautiful colors of the world: tans of flesh and greens of landscape, but also the purple of the iris and the tawny yellow of the pear." A prolific printmaker, Mitchell produced more than 200 editioned prints during her lifetime, collaborating with master printers at some of the world's leading print workshops.

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No Rain www.moma.org/collection/works/79711

Gift of The Estate of Joan Mitchell

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

La Chatiere www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/la…

La Chatiere

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tilleul www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/ti…

Tilleul

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Untitled www.moma.org/collection/works/156760

Committee on Drawings Funds

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Little Trip www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/li…

Little Trip

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tondo www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/to…

Tondo

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

City Landscape www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/ci…

City Landscape

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bracket www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/br…

Bracket

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In-text plate (folio 2) from Poems www.moma.org/collection/works/10613

Gift of Tyler Graphics in memory of Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sides of a River I www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mitche…

Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/un…

Untitled

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My Landscape II www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/my…

My Landscape II

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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ladybug www.moma.org/collection/works/79586

Purchase

Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hemlock www.wikiart.org/en/joan-mitchell/he…

Hemlock