But the author takes a long time before plopping Mitchell into the heart of the New York art world. First she evokes the rich cultural life of 1930s and 1940s Chicago, where Mitchell grew up; then, ...

Curling up with a hefty book of almost 1,000 pages — dense with footnotes, endnotes, acknowledgments, an index and a ...

With pulsating lines and musical metaphor, Rogers rhapsodically introduces artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) and her creation of 21 gigantic paintings known as La Grande Vallée Suite.