Salut Tom

1979

Joan Mitchell

Painter, American, 1925 - 1992

The top quarter of this horizontal abstract painting is dominated by bright, sunshine yellow over areas of sky blue, moss and forest green, and white below. The painting is made up of four vertical panels joined to make one long composition. Yellow dominates the leftmost panel over a field of pale blue marked with forest and spring green, teal, and yellow, mostly along the bottom edge of the canvas. The field of pale blue and white take up most of the space in the two center panels, with a band of yellow above and deep green marks below. In the rightmost panel, the blue field is more variegated with darker blues, shades of green, white, and yellow. Throughout, some of the colors are layered and sometimes they are applied next to each other. Thick and thin areas of paint and drips create a variety of textures on the surface of each panel. The artist signed this work in pencil in the lower right corner: “Joan Mitchell.”
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York); purchased 1979 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1981

  • Thirty-seventh Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 February - 5 April 1981.

1982

  • Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist.

  • Joan Mitchell: choix de peintures, 1970-1982, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1982.

1988

  • Joan Mitchell: Thirty-Six Years of Natural Expressionism, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1988-1989.

1998

  • The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

2002

  • The Paintings of Joan Mitchell, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Birmingham Museum of Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Phillips Collection, Washington, 2002-2004.

2006

  • redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 April 2006 - 31 December 2006.

2008

  • The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

2016

  • Abstract Expressionism, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2016-2017, no. 131, repro.

2021

  • Joan Mitchell (SFMOMA & BMA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 2021 - 2023, pl. 100.

Inscriptions

lower right, in pencil: Joan Mitchell

Wikidata ID

Q46640248

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