Joan Mitchell’s Views from La Tour: Painting, Memory, and Landscape at Vétheuil

In 1968 artist Joan Mitchell moved from Paris to La Tour, a country estate in Vétheuil that overlooks the Seine as well as a cottage where Claude Monet lived and worked from 1878 to 1881. While Mitchell was known as an Abstract Expressionist painter in New York and Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, her relationship to landscape and 19th-century French painting blossomed in her decades in the countryside. Marin Sarvé-Tarr, assistant curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, will examine how Mitchell looked back to propel her work forward in the final decades of her career.
The Mary Strauss Women in the Arts Lecture is supported by the Mary Strauss Women in the Arts Endowment.