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- Joan Mitchell: Paintings 1950 to 1955By Joan Mitchell, Robert Miller Gallery
Important Art by Joan Mitchell
Untitled (1951)
Untitled (1951) was one of the seminal works in Joan Mitchell's first solo exhibition at The New Gallery in New York City in 1952. Paul Brach's review announced, "The debut of this young painter marks the appearance of a new personality in abstract painting. Miss Mitchell's huge canvases are post-Cubist in their precise articulation of spatial intervals, yet they remain close in spirit to American Abstract Expressionism in their explosive impact."
City Landscape (1955)
Informed by an urban energy, City Landscape is an iconic example of Mitchell's early work. The tension between the horizontal brushstrokes of vibrant color in the center with the surrounding whites exemplifies her use of the figure-ground relationship. The work also demonstrates her debt to Philip Guston, whose Abstract Expressionist work was often likened to Impressionism.
Hemlock (1956)
Mitchell's paintings are striking in their sheer physicality. She used bold and active strokes of paint on large canvases. In Hemlock, her use of cool whites interplays with the horizontal lines of green and black and gives the sense of an evergreen in the winter.
Influences and Connections

- Willem de Kooning
- Franz Kline
- Frank O'Hara
- Jean-Paul Riopelle
- Pat Steir
- Joan Snyder
- Philip Wofford
- Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Lyrical Abstraction