Patricia Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life, Knopf, 2011, 544 pp., $40. There are many ways of writing about the life of a famous artist. One is the scholarly ... set her apart from her ...
The New York art scene of the 1950s ... for the gender balance to rectify. The female Abstract Expressionists Lee Krasner, ...
had steadily been collecting work by postwar and contemporary women artists like Joan Mitchell, Suzanne Jackson, Joan Semmel, and Kay WalkingStick when she decided to make a book from the ...