The Newcomb Art Gallery shows Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The Newcomb Art Gallery
at
Tulane University presents Joan Mitchell in New Orleans, on view March
31 – June
30, 2010. Organized in collaboration with the Joan Mitchell Foundation
and Cheim
& Read Gallery, New York, the three-part exhibition brings together
the
major bodies of the artist’s work: works on paper at the Newcomb Art
Gallery,
paintings at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and prints at the
Contemporary Arts
Center. The Newcomb Art Gallery show is a comprehensive survey
of Joan
Mitchell’s works on paper created over a 30-year period and focuses on
the
artist’s bold work in pastel. The show also includes examples of other
media,
such as watercolor and oil paint, and offers a rare chance to view the
artist’s
archival sketchbooks containing unframed pastel studies from the late
sixties
and late eighties.