Joan Mitchell

Born in Chicago in 1926, Joan Mitchell attended Smith College and The Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York in 1947. Mitchell came into contact with the Abstract Expressionist painters when she enrolled in Hans Hofmann’s painting classes in New York and by 1948 she had achieved prominence as one of the leading members of the ‘second generation’ painters of The New York School. Her first group show was in 1950 at the