![]() ![]() “She meant for her paintings to be physical and emotional, rather than intellectual, and because of that they’re more accessible than much abstraction,” says Katy Siegel, co-curator of a Mitchell retrospective opening this month at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Anderson, Martha Jackson Memorial Collection © Estate of Joan Mitchell Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. ![]() Mitchell created the large painting in her Paris studio from what she called “remembered landscapes” that she carried with her. But she was also an athlete-a champion figure skater-and that athleticism translated to her art. ![]() Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was a star of the Abstract Expressionist movement, a peer of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. ![]()
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