#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell 1925-1992
American painter, specializing in abstracts
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
born in Chicago to physician father and poet-mother Marion Strobel Mitchell, co-editor (with Margaret Monroe) of Poetry magazine pic.twitter.com/f3xYL07Mbn— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
mother published many famous poets for first time in America, including Ezra Pound and TS Eliot, so Joan met many famous poets, including Dylan ThomasUntitled, 1969 pic.twitter.com/3MjI3tFzHb
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
father was an amateur artist who took Joan and her sister to country for sketches and watercolors, and introduced them to famous artists. By 5-6, Joan’s favorite painter was Van GoghLittle Trip, 1964 pic.twitter.com/jqUdMApYk7
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
age 7: taking weekend art classes @ Art Institute of ChicagoUntitled, 1967 pic.twitter.com/F4f4CBs1WR
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
age 12: first exhibition, @ her private grammar school
ages 15-17: Joan is an award-winning figure-skater until a knee injury ends her career
age 17: enrolled in School of the Art Institute of ChicagoHeel, Sit, Stay, 1977 pic.twitter.com/sRDlHYdg5N
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1947: graduates with BFA from School of the Institute of Art of Chicago and receives Foreign Traveling Fellowship to study abroadTired Children, first public exhibition, wins prize pic.twitter.com/KXbaC3hqB0
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1948: sails to Paris with grammar-school classmate Barney Rosset, whom she will later marryUntitled, 1950 pic.twitter.com/llRsh35QWJ
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1948: travels to Spain and Czechoslovakia, moves to Provence for her health & stays a year, paintingUntitled, 1952 pic.twitter.com/3Imc9HrhSw
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1949: marries Rosset and they return to US where Joan enrolls in art school in Chicago
1950: awarded MFA & has first solo exhibition, featuring paintings done in ProvenceCity Landscape, Arctic, 1955 pic.twitter.com/ahglRGOveb
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1956: Whitney Museum of American Art purchases Hemlock. Art Institute of Chicago purchases City Landscape (previous tweet)Hemlock, 1956 pic.twitter.com/UjrZqa4XTF
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1960: painting Skyes (after her Skye terriers) featured on cover of Art News, & Mitchell’s art featured in “The Found Generation”one of Mitchell’s Sky terriers (L) and Skyes, on Art News pic.twitter.com/Mnzc0qRvyq
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Untitled, 1961 pic.twitter.com/Km70ZclbJx— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Grandes Carrieres, 1961-62 pic.twitter.com/Yy1nqEWQir— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Little Trip, 1964 pic.twitter.com/pCOF8NgKyi— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Untitled, 1964 pic.twitter.com/pzcYSzTRPV— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Chicago, with Frame, 1966 pic.twitter.com/4hjQrsfgXd— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1967: mother dies of cancer, leaving her 2 daughters trust funds
Joan buys an estate in a small village northwest of Paris, over looking the SeineMy Landscape II, 1967 pic.twitter.com/b5w577l21e
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1967: Mitchell paints in her Paris studio during week, and in her estate studio on weekendsUntitled, 1967 pic.twitter.com/25O4t4u2Dl
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Untitled, 1969 pic.twitter.com/70qWBsqiyK— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1971: awarded Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art, Westem College, Miami University, OHFields IV pic.twitter.com/WSaAnzPJfp
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Blue Territory, 1971 pic.twitter.com/iuTRNwTe49— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
The Lot, 1971 pic.twitter.com/Le4UQoGwXy— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
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Untitled, 1973 pic.twitter.com/srT0oWHV8u— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Un Jardin pour Audrey, 1975 pic.twitter.com/AeYdLyrFrO— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Untitled, 1977 pic.twitter.com/63iy68DDrq— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Heel, Sit, Stay, 1977 pic.twitter.com/eacVp0LzA0— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
La Vie en Rose, 1979 pic.twitter.com/5sfZM5lmeN— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Untitled, 1979 pic.twitter.com/CIjbw4qTiC— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Salut Tom, 1979 pic.twitter.com/Dczqk1suOU— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Minnesota, 1980 pic.twitter.com/GSoqOVurJ5— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Untitled, 1981 pic.twitter.com/EtBxzDvKtv— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1981: former psychoanalyst and friend of Mitchell dies of cancer; Mitchell titles painting after EFEdrita Fried, 1981 pic.twitter.com/yitnUiWjtA
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#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Merrily, 1982 pic.twitter.com/rYhTdJrPM7— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Pour Iva, 1983 pic.twitter.com/fpWqqBqf49— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Le Grand Vallée XIV, 1983 pic.twitter.com/QDJU2bMOZl— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
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Untitled, 1986 pic.twitter.com/sIGBdxpYkB— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Untitled (two from 1987) pic.twitter.com/pFCz2GaB6g— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
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Untitled, 1989 pic.twitter.com/0xwWn7M9dT— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
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River, 1989 pic.twitter.com/UhvY90qpbD— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
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Trees, 1990 pic.twitter.com/mQybi2twem— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
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Trees, 1990-91 pic.twitter.com/lWKgltrjQo— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
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Sunflowers, 1990-91 pic.twitter.com/m1BHva9JSK— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
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Untitled, 1991 pic.twitter.com/iz6jDRZW99— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
Ici, 1992 pic.twitter.com/Pb6QJzLOw4— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) January 6, 2018
#ArtSaturday Joan Mitchell
1992: dies of lung cancer(L) with Fourcade, 1980s, with dog 1984, with art 1959 and 1991 pic.twitter.com/FH0oBecz1q
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