Patricia Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life, Knopf, 2011, 544 pp., $40. There are many ways of writing about the life of a famous artist. One is the scholarly way, another is the fawning, ...

In her cityscapes, a visionary Manhattan painter created delicate registers of light and shadow, and bravura expressions of ...

With pulsating lines and musical metaphor, Rogers rhapsodically introduces artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) and her creation of 21 gigantic paintings known as La Grande Vallée Suite.

She said, “When you work on a small piece, you are very close to it and sort of pulled into that small world. It’s also nice ...

Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; 7 November 1943 - Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada) is a musician, singer-songwriter, poet and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in ...

Fournier was among the first to exhibit artists such as Sam Francis, Shirley Jaffe and Joan Mitchell at his Rue du Bac gallery, and in doing so ...