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Joan Mitchell

Mooring
Now On View

Maker

Joan Mitchell (American, 1926-1992

Title

Mooring

Year

1971

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

oil paint

Supports

Dimensions

241.3 x 180.3 cm (95 x 71 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

signed, l.r.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Bayard and Harriet K. Ewing Collection

Object Number

1992.124

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

Art and Design from 1900 to Now
Jun 04, 2022 – Dec 01, 2030

Label copy

Mooring calls up a nautical reference-the stayed vessel on turbulent water. This painting is a jumble of shimmering rectangular volumes. In the upper right a large orange box is partially wrapped in translucent white paint, like a clouded sunset. The middle ground is dominated by blue, as if to let in water, and quick orange brushstrokes dance as a light reflected on waves. Across the surface of the canvas Mitchell employs a variety of colors, shapes, and washes to suggest the possibility of day’s end, boats, net, cloud, sail. These abstractions don’t capture landscapes as they are seen, but as they are felt and remembered. The mind of the viewer expands and contracts in tandem with the pulse of her creation.

-Diedrick Brackens, artist and exhibition collaborator

Painting Air
Spencer Finch
Feb 24, 2012 – Aug 19, 2012
Re-Viewing the Twentieth Century
Jul 21, 2006 – Apr 22, 2007
Sign Language
Twentieth-Century Painting from the Permanent Collection
Jun 23, 2000 – Oct 29, 2000
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art
Jul 07, 1995 – Sep 02, 1995

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Tombstone

Joan Mitchell (American, 1926-1992
b. in Chicago)
Mooring, 1971
Oil on canvas
241.3 x 180.3 cm (95 x 71 inches)
Gift of the Bayard and Harriet K. Ewing Collection 1992.124

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