Joan Mitchell: An Interview

Joan Mitchell was the daughter of physician James Herbert Mitchell and poet Marion Strobel. Mitchell spent much of the ’50s in New York, living on St. Mark’s Place on the Lower East Side, and was deeply involved with the second generation of the New York School. While other members of the second generation moved painting toward cool, formalist images, Mitchell persisted in maintaining the basis of her style in action painting and achieved paintings of great emotional and intellectual intensity. During the 1960s Mitchell moved to France, where she lived until her death in 1992. Interview by Lyn Blumenthal.

A historical interview originally recorded in 1974 and re-edited in 2004.