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Joan Mitchell (1925 – 1992) was a second generation American abstract expressionist painter. She was a member of the American abstract expressionist movement, even though much of her career took place in France. Along with Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner and Shirley Jaffe, she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim.

 

In the Bedford Series, Mitchell’s art execution is precise but not literal. She creates a sensation or feeling, not an objection or place. Mitchell, with her roots in American action painting paints an inner vision. The 'landscapes' she paints are expressions of emotions felt, not of things actually seen.