“The sweeping retrospective promises to show a side of the Abstract Expressionist that has gone unappreciated.”
Sarah Cascone
June 15, 2018
“The celebrated Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) is getting a major retrospective courtesy of the Baltimore Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, starting in 2020. Organized by the BMA’s Katy Siegel and SFMOMA’s Sarah Roberts, the show will mark the first survey dedicated to Mitchell in the US in almost two decades, and promises to open an exciting new chapter in the reevaluation of her achievement as a major painter.
‘It’s not like she’s an undiscovered artist who people didn’t see,’ Siegel told artnet News. Yet even in her case, the curator suggests, there is work to be done to correct the record. ‘Joan Mitchell was working at an enormously high level for four decades, and people didn’t quite get it because she was a woman. I think people are ready to recognize her greatness…’”
Currently on view in BLUE CHIP: Printmaking Masters