Oral history interview with Joan Mitchell
name: label: Creator
content: Mitchell, Joan, 1926-1992
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Creator
content: Mitchell, Joan, 1926-1992
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was a painter. Birth date also cited, incorrectly, as 1926.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, master (1 hr., 19 min.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 29 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 May 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mitche65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Joan Mitchell, conducted by Dorothy Seckler for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in New York, on May 21, 1965.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Mitchell speaks of her use of landscapes and color; the relationship between representation and abstraction in her work; her early exhibitions at the Stable Gallery and the New Gallery; her time in Paris; memories of The Club; how the New York art world has changed since the 1940s; comparisons of the gallery scenes of Paris and New York; reception of her work; and her series Calvi. Mitchell also recalls Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and others.