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[[File:Joan Mitchell.jpg|thumb|Joan Mitchell, from "Reality and the Museum", 1961.]]
[[File:Joan Mitchell.jpg|thumb|Joan Mitchell, from "Reality and the Museum", 1961.]]
'''JOAN MITCHELL''' (Chicago, Illinois, 1925 - Paris, France, 1992) was an American abstract expressionist [[painter]] and printmaker. Much of Mitchell's career took place in [[France]].
'''JOAN MITCHELL''' (Chicago, Illinois, 1925 - Paris, France, 1992) was an American abstract expressionist [[painter]] and printmaker. Much of Mitchell's career took place in [[France]].
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Among her major retrospective exhibitions were those at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1974), the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de [[Paris]] (1982), and in 1988 a touring exhibition that went to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and elsewhere. Earlier this year, "Joan Mitchell Pastels" was seen at the Whitney Museum. In 1991 she received the Grand Prix des Arts from the City of Paris. [http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/arts/joan-mitchell-abstract-artist-is-dead-at-66.html]
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