Untitled
Joan Mitchell
American, 1925–1992
1963
A large three-panel oil painting in which Joan Mitchell translates the sensation of a landscape into energetic, gestural masses of green and white, aiming to evoke memory and feeling rather than depict literal forms.
You encounter three dense, painterly clusters of green that seem to float on a luminous white ground, their layered brushstrokes, drips, and sudden splashes pulsing with windlike movement and rhythmic intensity.
Created during the height of Abstract Expressionism, this triptych demonstrates Mitchell’s lyrical, landscape-inflected abstraction that broadened the movement’s emotional and chromatic range while asserting a distinct, influential female perspective.
Medium
Oil on canvas, three panels
Dimensions
63 7/8" x 10' 7 7/8" (162.4 x 324.8 cm)
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Credit
Gift of The Estate of Joan Mitchell
Accession
445.1994.a-c
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