Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide, 3rd ed.(Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), p. Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James Cuno, 3rd ed.Sister Wendy Beckett, “City Landscape,” Sister Wendy’s American Art Collection, accessed (color ill.). ![]() Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, 2006), pp. Dustin, Roger Hankins, Erin Murray, and Charlotte Nalle Eyerman, exh. Ziegler, eds., The Spiritual Landscapes of Adrienne Farb: 1980-2006, with contributions by Christopher A. (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), p. (Society for Contemporary Art, 2000), pp. Wood, Society for Contemporary Art: 1940–2000, 60th Anniversary, exh. (Art Institute of Chicago/Hudson Hills Press, 1999), p. Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N.Hal Fondren, Joan Mitchell: Paintings 1950 to 1955, exh.Klaus Kertess, Joan Mitchell (Harry N.(New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 1996), n.pag. Robert Miller Gallery, Joan Mitchell: Paintings 1956 to 1958, exh.Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Hudson Hills Press, 1996), p. Michel Waldberg, Joan Mitchell (Éditions de la Différence, 1992), p.(School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), p. Dennis Adrian, From America’s Studio: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Two Exhibitions of Works by Alumni 125th Annniversary Exhibition, exh.Franz Schulze, Society for Contemporary Art The Art Institute of Chicago: 1940-1980, exh.checklist (Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), p. Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois, In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, exh.(Society for Contemporary Art, 1966), n.pag. Art Institute of Chicago, 26th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, exh.Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. ![]() checklist (Society for Contemporary Art, 1958), n.pag., cat. Art Institute of Chicago, 18th Annual Society for Contemporary American Art Exhibition, exh.Walker Art Center, Vanguard 1955: A Painter’s Selection of New American Paintings, exh.Mitchell" (lower right in black paint) not inscribed on verso Dimensions Unframed: 203.2 × 203.2 cm (80 × 80 in.) 203.2 × 203.2 cm (80 × 80 in.) Credit Line Gift of Society for Contemporary American Art Reference Number 1958.193 Copyright © The Estate of Joan Mitchell Extended information about this artwork (circa) or BCE.ġ955 Medium Oil on linen Inscriptions Signed: recto: "J. ![]() Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. Eventually, the painting tells me what to do.” Status On View, Gallery 291 Department Contemporary Art Artist Joan Mitchell Title City Landscape Place United States (Artist's nationality:) Dateĭates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. “Then I sit and look at the painting, sometimes for hours. Unlike many of her contemporaries, who were dubbed “action painters,” Mitchell worked slowly and deliberately. The sense of spontaneity conveyed in City Landscape, however, belies Mitchell’s methods. The title suggests a relationship between the painting’s network of pigments and the nerves or arteries of an urban space. Mitchell painted large, light-filled canvases animated by loosely applied skeins of bright color-here infused with the energy of a large metropolis. Although influenced by Abstract Expressionist artists in New York in the early 1950s, Joan Mitchell did not prioritize self-expression: her often exuberant abstractions were “about landscape, not about me,” she once explained.
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