Untitled

Joan Mitchell, American, 1925 - 1992

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about 1959

Oil pastel and oil paint on wove paper

Sheet: 13 3/4 × 16 7/8 in. (35 × 42.8 cm)

Frame: 20 3/4 × 25 in. (52.7 × 63.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

D.2002.28

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, lower right: J. Mitchell

Course History

SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Winter 2013

SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Katherine Hart, Spring 2012

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Jennifer Caine, Spring 2013

SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2013

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

PHIL 23, The Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2014

SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Summer 2014

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II/III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2014

ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Winter 2015

ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States. Mary Coffey, Winter 2015

SART 76, Senior Seminar I, Brenda Garand, Winter 2015

PHIL 23, Art and Aesthetics, John Kulvicki, Winter 2015

SART 76, Senior Seminar I, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2019

SART 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Spring 2019

SART 15.01, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Spring 2019

SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2019

SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2020

SART 15.01, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Fall 2021

SART 76, Senior Seminar, Enrico Riley, Winter 2022

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II,III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022

Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2023

Exhibition History

Gesture, Emotion, Shape: Sources of Abstraction by Philip Dytko, Class of 2017, Pauline Lewis, Class of 2016, and Amalia Siegel, Class of 2016, Art History 71: The American Century- Modern Art in the United States, Winter 2015, Mary Coffey, Class Project, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 14-July 12, 2015.

Joan Mitchell, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York, (no cat.), September 12-October 12, 2002 (removed from exhibition October 3)

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.

The Art of Spectatorship: A History of Viewing from the Renaissance to the Present Day, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-April 6, 2008.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 25, 34, 42, 202, 272-273, ill. p. 203, no. 70.

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.170, no.140.

Provenance

The artist; given to Carl Planski, New York; to Eilliot Bossman, Long Island City, New York (art dealer); to Marcia Blum, Old Westbury, New York (art dealer), 1991; sold to Dr. Larry Wells, Brookville, New York, in 2002; consigned to Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2002.

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