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Joan Mitchell
Untitled (Fresh Air School) /// Abstract Expressionist Female Joan Mitchell Art

1972

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Artist: Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992) Title: "Untitled (Fresh Air School)" Portfolio: Fresh Air School *Unsigned edition Year: 1972 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph on white wove paper Limited edition: 6,000, (there was also a signed and numbered edition of 30) Printer: Arte, Adrien Maeght, Paris, France Publisher: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Reference: "The Prints of Sam Francis: A Catalogue Raisonné 1960-1990" - Lembark No. L155, page 234-235 Sheet size: 15" x 22" Condition: One small soft crease upper center left. In excellent condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Oakland, CA. With centerfold as issued. Printed in four colors from four aluminum plates: black, blue, grey, and cream. Comes from the 1972 "Fresh Air School" unbound folio of three lithographs by Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell, and Walasse Ting. These lithographs were created in conjunction with a special exhibition of paintings by the three artists "Fresh Air School" at the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA which ran from 1972 - 1973. The official catalogue raisonne of Sam Francis' printmaking by Lembark documents this portfolio and each of the artists' contributing lithograph editions. Biography: Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 - October 30, 1992) was an American "second generation" abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. She was a member of the American abstract expressionist movement, even though much of her career took place in France. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, Shirley Jaffe and Sonia Gechtoff, she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Her paintings and editioned prints can be seen in major museums and collections across the United States and Europe.
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