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 opens May 16, at the Speed Art Museum, marking Kentucky’s first exhibition devoted to ...

The dense webs, clusters and tangles of color seen in Joan Mitchell’s paintings evoke everything from a lake to a poem to a city scene to something more abstract. As the American artist wrote to a ...

"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 ...

Artist Joan Mitchell’s bold, lyrical canvases made her one of the defining voices of Abstract Expressionism — and one of the few women to claim an enduring place in the movement’s history. A century ...

See how Abstract Expressionism shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York In post World War II New York City, a new group of artists including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de ...

Artist Joan Mitchell’s bold, lyrical canvases made her one of the defining voices of Abstract Expressionism — and one of the few women to claim an enduring place in the movement’s history. A century ...

Turning 25 this year, Tate Modern in London has much to celebrate, but no birthday is complete without a few presents. Today, the museum announced that it has been given a monumental triptych by the ...

Any painting created nearly 80 years ago would most certainly have something of a storied past. But the history of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange), painted in 1955, is ...

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 ...

September Twenty-third, 1980, Lee Krasner, ink, crayon and collage on lithographic paper, Richard P. Friedman and Cindy Lou Wakefield Collection Overcoming obstacles such as sexism and discrimination ...

Joan Mitchell with her dog Georges du Soleil in Springs, New York, ca. 1953 (Photograph by Barney Rosset, Joan Mitchell Foundation Archives. © Joan Mitchell ...