1.1 Joan and the yellow satin curtains, c. 1933. Photograph: James Herbert Mitchell. Collection Sally Perry.
1.2 Joan’s grandfather, Charles Louis Strobel, c. 1890. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
1.3 Joan’s grandmother Henrietta Moore Baxter Strobel with her young daughter Marion Strobel (Joan’s mother), c. 1898. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
2.1 Six-year-old Joan (right) and seven-year-old Sally, 1931. Chicago Daily Tribune photograph. Collection Sally Perry.
2.2 Joan training at the Saddle and Cycle Club pool, c. 1936. Photograph: James Herbert Mitchell. Collection Sally Perry.
2.3 Jimmie Mitchell and his adoring daughters, Joan (left) and Sally (right), summering in Lake Forest, 1933. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
3.1 Poet George Dillon, 1930. Photographer unknown. George Dillon Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library.
3.2 Marion Strobel Mitchell, c. 1931. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
3.3 Joan Mitchell (right) at Parker’s Mezzanine Gallery, c. 1938. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Parker Archives, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, Illinois.
3.4 Carol Blossom, Barbara McNulty, Sally Mitchell, Mary Cornelia Aldis, and Joan at the Saddle and Cycle Club, c 1938. Chicago Herald and Examiner photograph. Collection Sally Perry.
3.5 Pairs champions Joan Mitchell and Bobby Specht on the ice, c. 1940. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
4.1 Tim Osato, 1940s. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
4.2 Joan, c. 1946. Photograph: Barney Rosset. Collection Sally Perry.
4.3 Joan and Dan Sparling at Ox-Bow, 1943 or 1944. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
4.4 Dick Bowman, 1942 or 1943. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Sonja Marck.
5.1 A portrait by Dick Bowman, 1945. Lithograph. Photograph: Douglas Sandberg. Collection Norman J. Pahls.
5.2 Self-portrait, c. 1944. Graphite on paper. Courtesy Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York.
5.3 Joan’s Mexican oils, University of Illinois gallery, 1947. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
5.4 La Bufa, 1944. Collection Sally Perry.
5.5 Joan, I. Newton Perry III, Sarah, 1946. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
5.6 At the apartment, Brooklyn’s Old Fulton Street, c. 1948. Photograph: Barney Rosset. Courtesy of Barney Rosset and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
5.7 Joan and Barney, under the Brooklyn Bridge, c. 1948. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
5.8 Joan and Barney, rue Galande, 1948 or 1949. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Barney Rosset and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
6.1 Joan and Jimmie with Figure and the City, c. 1951. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
6.2 Franz Kline in his studio, 1954. Photograph: Fritz Goro/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
6.3 Willem de Kooning, 1952. Photograph: Kay Bell Reynal. Courtesy of the Photographs of Artists, Kay Bell Reynal Collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
7.1 Evans Herman, 1955. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Evans Herman.
7.2 Joan, c. 1950. Photographer unknown. Collection Joyce Pensato.
8.1 Joan and Michael Goldberg, c. 1954. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Michael Goldberg Papers, 1942–1981, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
8.2 Joan and George, Springs, 1954. Photograph: Barney Rosset. Courtesy of Barney Rosset, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.
9.1 Joan, Paris, 1955. Photograph: Sam Francis. Courtesy Sam Francis Foundation, California.
10.1 Joan and Paul Jenkins, East Tenth Street, c. 1958. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Suzanne and Paul Jenkins.
10.2 Joan, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan at Helen’s 1957 opening at Tibor de Nagy. Photograph: Burt Glinn, Magnum. Courtesy Magnum.
10.3 Life magazine’s shot of Joan, Paris studio, 1957. Photograph: Loomis Dean, Life. Courtesy Joyce Pensato.
10.4 “Mitchell Paints a Picture” for ArtNews, 1957. Photograph: Rudy Burckhardt. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © 2011 Estate of Rudy Burckhardt/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York.
10.5 Edrita Fried and her daughter Jaqui, 1960. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Jaqueline Fried.
10.6 Riopelle, unknown woman, Giacometti, Joan, and painter Louis le Brocquy, c. 1960–62. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.
11.1 Joan and Jean-Paul Riopelle, c. 1960. Photograph: James Herbert Mitchell. Collection Sally Perry.
11.2 Joan with her Skye terriers, in her Frémicourt studio, c. 1960. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.
11.3 With poet John Ashbery, 1963. Photograph: Walt Silver. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
11.4 Joan and “Rip,” c. 1963. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.
11.5 Barney Rosset and Samuel Beckett, early 1960s. Courtesy of Barney Rosset and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
11.6 With Frank O’Hara, Frémicourt, c. 1960. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.
11.7 Joan and her mother, Chicago, c. 1965. Photographer unknown. Collection Sally Perry.
11.8 Joan and Jean-Paul, Frémicourt, c. 1963. Photograph: Heidi Meister. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.
11.9 Joan, Patricia Matisse, Chan May Kan, Jean-Paul, and Zao Wou-ki, c. 1963. Photograph: Matt Flynn. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
12.1 Joan, 1972. Photograph: Nancy Crampton. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © Nancy Crampton. All rights reserved.
13.1 Joan, Whitney Museum, 1974. Photograph: Nancy Crampton. Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © Nancy Crampton. All rights reserved.
13.2 Joan and Xavier Fourcade, 1980s. Photograph: Jill Weinberg Adams. Courtesy Jill Weinberg Adams.
13.3 With Elaine de Kooning, 1975. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
13.4 Phyllis Hailey, 1977. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Anne Hailey and Kay Harvey.
13.5 Hollis Jeffcoat, 1978. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
14.1 Joan and Ken Tyler, Tyler Graphics, 1981. Photograph: Hans Namuth. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, © 1991 Hans Namuth Estate.
14.2 Joan and Gisèle, early 1980s. Photograph: Sally Perry. Collection Sally Perry.
14.3 Joan, Vétheuil, 1984. Photograph: Édouard Boubat. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. Boubat/Gamma Rapho.
14.4 Joan and her dogs, 1984. Photograph: Édouard Boubat. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Boubat/Gamma Rapho.
15.1 Joe LeSueur, c. early 1980s. Photographer unknown. Courtesy Estate of Joe LeSueur.
15.2 With Jean Fournier, c. 1987. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
15.3 A portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1988. © Copyright The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Courtesy Art + Commerce.
16.1 Joan and Milton Resnick, Robert Miller Gallery, 1992. Photograph: John Cheim. Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.
16.2 After receiving the Grand Prix des Arts, 1991. Photograph: Daniel Franck. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Copyright by Daniel Franck, Paris.
16.3 Joan, Vétheuil, 1992. Photograph: Christopher Campbell. Courtesy of Christopher Campbell.
bm2.1 Joan Mitchell, Hudson River Day Line, oil on canvas, 1955. 79 × 83 in. (200.7 × 210.8 cm). Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the Tobin Foundation. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and McNay Art Museum. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.2 Joan Mitchell, George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold, oil on canvas, 1957. 85¼ × 78¼ in. (216.5 × 198.8 cm). Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1958. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.3 Joan Mitchell, Ladybug, oil on canvas, 1957. 777/8 × 108 in. (197.8 × 274.3 cm). Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY/Artists Rights Society. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.4 Joan Mitchell, Grandes Carrières, oil on canvas, 1961–62. 78¾ × 118¼ in. (200 × 300.5 cm). Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Estate of Joan Mitchell. Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY/Artists Rights Society. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.5 Joan Mitchell, Untitled (Cheim Some Bells), oil on canvas, 1964. 84 × 78¼ in. (213.4 × 198.8 cm). Collection John Cheim. Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.6 Joan Mitchell, Sans Pierre, oil on canvas, 1969. 1035/8 × 797/8 in. (263.2 × 202.9 cm). Collection Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lehrman, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.7 Joan Mitchell, La Grande Vallée XVIII (Luc), oil on canvas, 1983–84. 110 × 102 in. (280 × 260 cm). Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.8 Joan Mitchell, Lille V, oil on canvas (diptych), 1986. 76¾ × 1023/8 in. (195 × 260 cm). Private Collection. Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.9 Joan Mitchell, No Birds, oil on canvas (diptych), 1987–88. 87½ × 156 in. (222.3 × 396.2 cm). Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.10 Joan Mitchell, Rain, oil on canvas (diptych), 1989. 94½ × 157½ in. (240 × 400 cm). Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.11 Joan Mitchell, Sunflowers, oil on canvas (diptych), 1990–91. 110 × 157 in. (280 × 400.1 cm). Courtesy of Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.12 Joan Mitchell, Merci, oil on canvas (diptych), 1992. 110¼ × 141½ in. (280 × 360 cm). Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Cheim & Read Gallery, New York. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
bm2.13 Joan Mitchell, Blue Territory, oil on canvas, 1972. 103 × 71 in. (261.6 × 180.3 cm). Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1972. Courtesy of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.