Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter
"Patricia  Albers has written a book about Mitchell that I cannot imagine will ever be improved upon, so graceful and incisive is her account of the artist's hellbent life and lyric art."(New York Times)"Like Mitchell's vast canvases, Albers's impressive book ought to be experienced in the morning, 'for it can animate the entire day.'" (New Yorker)"No  complete account of Mitchell's life could be pleasant.   Albers...doesn't flinch.  Her thoroughly researched book details  Mitchell's alcoholism, depression, sexual exploits, foul-mouthed  arguments, violent outbursts and general rudeness.  Angry artists aren't  exactly rare, but Mitchell is surely in the hall of champions."  (Los  Angeles Times)"Electrifying. . .Patricia Albers emulates Mitchell’s painterly mission to conjoin "accuracy and intensity" in this transfixing and justly revealing portrait."—Booklist (starred)"Patricia Albers vividly chronicles the artist’s journey from her wealthy upbringing in Chicago to her defiant student days at Smith College, and as a young painter at the Art Institute of Chicago. . . Vibrantly written and carefully researched. . . Albers constructs a fluid, energetic narrative of Mitchell’s complicated life and work."—Publishers Weekly