Wood, Wind, No Tuba
Joan Mitchell
American, 1925–1992
1979
A two-panel oil-on-canvas painting in which Joan Mitchell translates the memory and movement of landscape—wind, wood, and absence—into dense, energetic fields of gesture and color.
You encounter an almost physical rush of saturated orange scrawls and scumbled lavender and slate-gray marks whose overlapping strokes, drips, and scraped passages create a turbulent, atmospheric rhythm across the large diptych.
A mature late-1970s example of Mitchell’s work that asserts scale, bodily gesture, and landscape-derived feeling within postwar abstraction, helping to reopen painterly abstraction as a vehicle for memory and place.
Medium
Oil on canvas, two panels
Dimensions
9' 2 1/4" x 13 1 1/8" (280 x 399.8 cm)
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Credit
Gift of The Estate of Joan Mitchell
Accession
446.1994.a-b
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