Talk:Joan Mitchell

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Jstanley16.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 23:25, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Merrylnguyen.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 01:16, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Alan Greenspan or not Alan Greenspan
Perhaps it was another Joan Mitchell.

Pending consensus I am removing this assertion. - In 1952 she was then briefly married to Alan Greenspan, although the marriage was annulled ten months later, but it was she who introduced him to Ayn Rand, the novelist and social philosopher.

And according to other references In 1952, Greenspan married Joan Mitchell, a painter. However according to Greenspan's biography The age of turbulence: adventures in a new world , the Joan he married was Canadian, while Joan Mitchell the famous painter was from Chicago and ironically lived with a Canadian - Jean-Paul Riopelle...Modernist (talk) 02:26, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Modernist, for catching this and reverting it again today. Mitchell's New York Times obituary mentions only her marriage to Barney Rosset. It absolutely would have mentioned the vastly more well-known Greenspan if she'd been married to him. In Greenspan's 2007 book he says that he and the Joan Mitchell from whom he was divorced were "friends to this day". The abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell had died fifteen years earlier, in 1992. The issue is muddled a bit by a Los Angeles Times review which says "Mitchell's marriage to Rosset broke up in 1952. Later that year she married a young market analyst named Alan Greenspan (now chairman of the Federal Reserve Board)". But I find the other evidence to be much more convincing, and the LA Times writer was apparently confused. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  03:57, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Mitchells
My understanding is that Alan Greenspan married a different Joan Mitchell - not the famous abstract expressionist painter but a Canadian art historian. That he also married Andrea Mitchell is ironic...Modernist (talk) 02:55, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That's correct. Greenspan's ex-wife subsequently married a psychiatrist named Alan Blumenthal. She now goes by the name Joan Mitchell Blumenthal and is still alive as of 2014. --RL0919 (talk) 17:43, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

New Edit
I have created a new edit in the career section to give more information on Mitchell's feelings towards her paintings and how it has a poetry quality.

~Bre4670

The source I used for my edit:
 * The Lyrical Principle: On Joan Mitchell by Dore Ashton

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion: Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 20:11, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Joan Mitchell, Rock Bottom (1960-1961) (39374429024).jpg

Links pulled from article
I'm removing a section on galleries her work is in, and don't think these minor mentions are worth keeping around in the article. But here they are, so we don't lose them entirely:


 * https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/02/25/a-gift-of-blue-chip-modern-art-comes-to-the-seattle-art-museum
 * https://empirestateplaza.ny.gov/art/joan-mitchell
 * https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2010/joan-mitchell-the-last-decade/

Cheers. -- asilvering (talk) 19:42, 17 January 2022 (UTC)