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Joan Mitchell Biography
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1925 - 1926 |
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Born February 12, Chicago, Illinois
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1942 |
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Received high school diploma from the Francis Parker School in Chicago
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1942 - 1944 |
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Smith College, Northampton, MA
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1944 - 1947 |
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BFA, The Art Institute of Chicago
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1948 - 1949 |
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Traveling fellowship to France, Italy and Spain from The Art Institute of Chicago
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1950 |
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MFA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Attended Columbia University, New York, NY
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1955 |
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Moved to France with Canadian-born French painter Jean Paul Riopelle
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1992 |
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Died, October 30, Paris
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2005
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Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima
Matuszakaya Museum, Nagoya.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Group Exhibition"
Cheim & Read, New York, "Fremicourt Paintings 1960-62,"
Nagano Tokyu, Nagano
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2003 - 2004
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The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Tibor de Nagy, “Working with Poets”
Lennon, Weinberg, “Joan Mitchell: Petit”
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2002
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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth Texas
Cheim & Read, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art,, “The Paintings of Joan Mitchell”
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham AL
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1998
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1997
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Selected Paintings, Lennon-Weinberg New York
Abstract Expressionism in the United States, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo Mexico City
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1996
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1995
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Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1994
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Les derniéres années, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume Paris, France
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1993
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Joan Mitchell Prints and Illustated Books: A Retrospective, Susan Sheehan Gallery New York
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1992
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Joan Mitchell Pastels, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1991
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
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1990
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Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1989
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1988 - 1989
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA, (solo)
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1987
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Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1984
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Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1983
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The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
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1982
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American Artists Abroad, 1900-1950, Washburn Gallery New York
Choix des peintures 1970-1982, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris, France
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1980
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Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1978
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Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
Ruth Shcaffner gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
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1976
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Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1975
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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1974
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Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY (solo)
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1973
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The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
Ruth Shcaffner gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
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1972
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Joan Mitchell, 'My Five Years in the Country,'" Everson museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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1971
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
Younger Abstract Expressionists of the Fifties, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
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1969
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Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1968
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1967
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The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
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1965
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The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
Stable Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1962
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"Paintings by Joan Mitchell," THe New Gallery, Hayden Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (solo)
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1961
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The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
Stable Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Joan Mitchell Paintings 1951-61," Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (solo)
Group Show, Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT
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1960
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Gallery Neufville Paris, France
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1959
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
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1953 - 1958
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Stable Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Nature in Abstraction," The Whitney museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1957
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1956 - 1957
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Group Show, The Museum of Modern, Art, New York, NY
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1953 - 1957
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The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
"New York Painting and Sculptural Annual," Stable Gallery, New York, NY
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1956
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Group Show, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
"Four Younger Americans: Paul Brach, MIchael Goldberg, Robert Goodnough, Joan Mitchell," Sidney Janice Gallery, New York, NY
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1955
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
"Vanguard 1955: A Painter's Selection of New American Painting," Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
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1953
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1951
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
New Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"New York Painting and Sculptural Annual," Stable Gallery, New York, NY
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1950
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Saint Paul Gallery St. Paul, Minnesota (solo)
Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana
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1949
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1947
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1944
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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