Painting Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell, Flower I, 1981, from the ‘Bedford’ series, colour lithograph printed from eight aluminium plates, crayon, tusche (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Kenneth Tyler, 2002 © Estate of Joan Mitchell)
Joan Mitchell, Flower I, 1981, from the ‘Bedford’ series, colour lithograph printed from eight aluminium plates, crayon, tusche (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Kenneth Tyler, 2002 © Estate of Joan Mitchell)

Julia Greenstreet writes about the Joan Mitchell's print collaborations with Kenneth Tyler.

Greenstreet writes: "Although Mitchell was a painter above all else (oil on canvas was her preferred medium), she was also an accomplished printmaker and produced a significant graphic oeuvre of prints and artist books... Tyler was struck by Mitchell’s ‘mastery of colour unparalleled by her contemporaries. I never worked with anyone since [Josef] Albers that had such a keen knowledge of colour and how colours interacted with each other’."