Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. She is also the author of Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti and the curator of Tina Modotti and the. Read 39 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter at. In Joan Mitchell, Patricia Albers brilliantly reconstructs Mitchell’s large and reckless life (her debutante years growing up in the Midwest the evolution of her extraordinary work her marriage to Barney Rosset Jr., owner and publisher of Grove Press her affairs her exhibitions) as seen through the times, the people, and the worlds of Chicago, Lake Forest, New York, Long Island’s East End, and the expatriate circles of Paris-from the 1920s through the 1990s. Writer Patricia Albers’ recent book is Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life. carousing in the Hamptons with Frank O’Hara, Saul Steinberg, Helen Frankenthaler hanging out with hip cats at the Five Spot and forging her own path in an art world convinced that women couldn’t paint. Joan Mitchell-Midwestern steel heiress ice-skating champion-came of age as an artist on New York’s Tenth Street in the 1950s knocking back beers at the Cedar Bar with de Kooning, Pollock, Kline, et al. A full-scale biography-the first-of the dazzling, outrageous, mythic Abstract Expressionist artist considered today one of the major American painters of the latter half of the twentieth century. Albers focuses on Mitchells artistic life as a rising and respected New York School painter and her years in France from the late 1950s until her death.

Joan Mitchell by Patricia Albers