1977 part 2

Parasol
1977
Oil on canvas
100 x 244 cm
Private Collection

1977

Untitled
1977
Pastel on Paper
57,5 x 39,5 cm
© Estate of Joan Mitchell.

1976 part 2


<i>”Joan Mitchell’s Pour Patou (1976), a bold and atmospheric oil on canvas, is another highlight of the exhibition. Mitchell fills the canvas with thick, stubby marks of greens, golds, blues, and black. Mitchell, who also exhibited in the Ninth Street Show and gained entry into the New York School’s circle, lived and painted in the East End during the summers of 1953 and 1954. In 1959, Mitchell moved to Paris and spent much of the rest of her career in France.”

From an article about an exhibition in N.Y. 2020: “Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950–2020” by y Sarah E. Fensom</I>

Pour Patou
1976
Oil on canvas
198 x 115,5 cm
Private collection

1976

Mitchell has her first solo exhibition with Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York.

No rain
1976
Oil on canvas
279,5 x 401 cm
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79711

 

In expansive canvases like No Rain (1976), Joan Mitchell combined assertive, richly textured brushwork with vibrant, lyrical color. “Abstract is not a style, I simply want to make a surface work,” she once said about her approach.

1975 part 2

Untitled
1975
Oil on canvas
100 x 73 cm
Private Collection

Untitled
1975
Oil on canvas

194 x 114 cm

1975

Mitchell creates numerous pastel drawings on paper with typed poems by friends Jacques Dupin, J. J. Mitchell, James Schuyler, Pierre Schneider, and Chris Larson.

Untitled (Blue)
1975
Drawing by Joan Mitchell with poem by J.J. Mitchell
Pastel and typewriting on paper
36.2 x 22.9 cm
Collection Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

The poem:

 

Blue

 

No pastel of you

straw-hatted, palming

your erasures, smudging

(the way you do) your blue

could fix for me

('blue, blue' you say)

the way you make your blue.

 

And for no reason

my eyes and the sky

cry for you.

1974

Mitchell's solo exhibition, curated by Marcia Tucker, opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Untitled
1974
61 by 50 cm
Private Collection