Abstract Expressionism, itr.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
labeling of Joan’s work as, itr.1, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1
“second generation” label and, itr.1, 11.1, 16.1n
See also New York School
Académie de la Grande Chaumière (Paris)
action painting, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1
See also Abstract Expressionism; New York School
Adams, John and John Quincy, n
Adams, Robert McCormick, 3.1, 15.1
Aldis, Dorothy and Graham, 3.1, 3.2
Allard, Claude Bauret, 15.1, 15.2
“American Action Painters, The” (Rosenberg)
American Painting 1900–1950 (New York, 1950), 6.1, 6.2
Amram, David, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
Anderson, David, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Archives of American Art, 4.1, 15.1
Artforum, 14.1
Art Informel (Tachiste movement)
Art Institute of Chicago, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1
Joan’s acceptance into juried exhibition at
Joan’s sources on view at, 5.1, 5.2
Society of Contemporary American Art exhibition (1950)
See also School of the Art Institute
ArtNews, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2
reviews of Joan’s work in, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1
stories about Joan in, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1
Arts & Architecture, 8.1
Arts Club (Chicago), 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 8.1, nts.1
Ashbery, John, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Joan’s collaboration with (The Poems), 11.1
Bach, Johann Sebastian, prl.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1
Bair, Deirdre, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1
Bank Lane Galleries (Lake Forest, Ill.), n
Barreau, Gisèle, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6
“La Grande Vallée”, 14.1, 14.2
Baudelaire, Charles, 3.1, 7.1, 10.1
Baxter, Daniel Franklin (great-grandfather), 1.1, 1.2, 16.1n
Baxter, Henrietta (grandmother). See Strobel, Henrietta Baxter
Baxter, Sarah Moore (great-grandmother)
Beckett, Samuel, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1
Joan’s relationship with, 10.1, 11.1
Beethoven, Ludwig van, xxi, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
Begley, Sharon, itr.1
Bend in the River, A (Naipaul), 14.1
Berkson, Bill, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1
Berlet, Marc, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 15.1
Bertie (Skye terrier), 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
Bertolette, Martha (“Mopse”, née Burke), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 13.1
Biala, Janice, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 16.1
Bloch-Champfort, Guy, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Bluhm, Norman, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1, 16.1
Bonheur, Rosa, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1
Bonnard, Pierre, 5.1, 12.1, 15.1
Bossy Farm (Springs, N.Y.), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Bourgeois, Louise, 10.1, 13.1, 15.1
Bowman, Peggy (née Polivka), 5.1, 5.2
Bowman, Richard, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1
Joan’s relationship with, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 15.1
portraits of Joan by, 5.1, 5.2
Boy in the Wind (Dillon), 3.1, 3.2
Brach, Paul, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Joan’s summer rentals in Springs with, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
souring of Joan’s friendship with
Braider, Don and Carol, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Brooklyn, Joan’s stay with Rosset in (1947–48), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1
Brooklyn Bridge, 5.1, 6.1, 10.1
Bufa, La (near Guanajuato, Mexico), 5.1, 5.2
Burchfield, Charles, itr.1
Burke, Martha. See Bertolette, Martha
Burpee Art Gallery (Rockford, Ill.)
Cajori, Marion, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Calder, Alexander, 3.1, 12.1, 12.2
Campbell, Christopher, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Canada, Joan’s trips to, 10.1, 13.1
Carnegie, Andrew, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Carnegie Corporation, 1.1, 1.2
Carnegie Handbook, 1.1
Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh)
Castelli, Leo, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Castelli Gallery (New York), 6.1, 10.1
Cedar Tavern (New York), 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Century of Progress Exhibition (Chicago, 1933), 3.1
Cézanne, Paul, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Chagall, Marc, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1
Charest, Champlain, 13.1, 13.2
Cheim, John, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Chez Margot (Golfe-Juan, France), 11.1, 11.2
Chicago:
grim realities of, during Joan’s early years
Joan’s art school years in, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Joan’s childhood and teenage years in, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1
Mitchells’ homes in, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Chicago and Vicinity Annual, 5.1
Chicago Auditorium Building, 1.1, 16.1n
Chicago Blue Book, 5.1
Chicago Daily Tribune, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Poetry
Chicago Herald and Examiner, 3.1
Chicago Sunday Times, 5.1
Chicago Sun-Times, 5.1
Child, Anne. See Weber, Anne
Chrysler, Walter P., Jr., 9.1, 10.1
Cohen-Tyler, Marabeth, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Color Field painting, 7.1, 11.1
Color Purple, The (Walker), 14.1
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Psychiatric Institute of
Cooper, Paula, Gallery (New York)
Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), 4.1, 15.1
Corsica, Joan and Jean-Paul’s trips to, 12.1, 12.2
Self-Portrait with a Black Dog, 8.1
Cubism, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1
Curie Institute (Paris), 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Czechoslovakia, Joan’s 1948 trip to
Davis, Miles, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
de Kooning, Elaine (née Fried), 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 13.1, 16.1
“Abstract Impressionism” coined by
Bill’s relationship with, 6.1, 8.1, 11.1, 14.1
Hamptons summers and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Joan’s relationship with, 8.1, 14.1
Vétheuil visited by, 13.1, 13.2
de Kooning, Willem, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Attic, 6.1
Elaine’s relationship with, 6.1, 8.1, 11.1, 14.1
emergence of New York School and, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 9.1
Goldberg’s theft and fraudulent sale of drawings by
in Hamptons, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 14.1
Joan’s borrowings from, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 12.1
Joan’s first encounters with, 6.1, 6.2
as Joan’s surrogate father, 6.1, 6.2
Ninth Street Show and, 6.1, 6.2
painting style of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 11.1
Pink Angels, 6.1
tension between followers of Pollock and, 7.1, 8.1
“De Kooning Paints a Picture” (Hess)
de Nagy, Tibor, Gallery (New York), 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1
Depression, Great, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1
Derrière le Miroir, 12.1
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), 14.1
Dillon, George, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 8.1, 12.1
Don Giovanni (Mozart), 8.1
Dubourg, Jacques, Galerie (Paris), 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
Duchamp, Marcel, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1
Dupin, Jacques, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2
Duthuit, Georges, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2
Duthuit, Marguerite (née Matisse), 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
Eckert, Loly, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Egan Gallery (New York), 6.1, 6.2
Ehrenzweig, Anton, 16.1, nts.1
eidetic memory:
ascribed to Joan, 2.1, 2.2, 9.1, 15.1
Eighth Street Club (New York), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, 7.2
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 9.1, 11.1
Eliot, T. S., 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 16.1n
Embers (Beckett), 11.1, 15.1, 16.1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, itr.1
Eminent Victorians (Strachey), itr.1
Endgame (Beckett), 10.1
Enigma of Arrival, The (Naipaul), 16.1
Escobar, Marisol, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Esquire, 9.1
Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Fantasia (yacht), 11.1
Felsenthal, Francine, 5.1, 7.1
Feminist Art Journal, 13.1
FIAC (International Fair for Contemporary Art)
Figure Skating Club of Chicago
Fitzgerald, Ella, 7.1, 8.1, 14.1
Five Spot (New York), 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 16.1
Flowering Stone, The (Dillon), 3.1
Fondren, Harold (Hal), 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1
Four Americans (New York, 1956), 9.1
Fourcade, Droll Gallery (New York)
Fourcade, Xavier, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
Fourcade, Xavier, Gallery (New York), 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Fournier, Jean, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6
Fournier, Jean, Galerie (Paris), 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
France:
Joan’s country estate in (see Tour, La)
Joan’s first museum exhibition in, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Joan’s first sojourn in (1948–49)
Joan’s holidays in south of, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
See also Paris
Francis, Sam, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 14.1
Frankenthaler, Helen, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Joan’s relationship with, 7.1, 15.1
Mountains and Sea, 7.1
Fravelo-Riopelle, Yann, 11.1, 11.2
Freilicher, Jane, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Frémicourt studio. See Paris
Freud, Sigmund, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 14.1
Fried, Edrita, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
Joan’s defective ego boundaries and, 2.1, 6.1, 8.1, 16.1n, 16.2n
Joan’s Paris “experiment” and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Joan’s relationship with Riopelle and, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1
as Joan’s surrogate mother, 6.1, 10.1
Fried, Jaqueline (Jaqui), 9.1, 10.1, 14.1, 15.1
Frydman, Monique, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
gender bias, itr.1, 4.1, 11.1, 12.1
in art world, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1
in Mitchell family, itr.1, 2.1, 9.1, 12.1
George (poodle), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7
painting based on memory about
Géry, Jean-Jacques, 16.1, 16.2
Giacometti, Alberto, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 16.1
Paris Sans Fin, 12.1
Gimpel and Sons (London), 9.1, 11.1
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry and Anne-Aymone
Goldberg, Michael, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 16.1
check-forging incident and, 6.1, 6.2
fraud involving de Kooning’s drawings and
House series, 10.1
Joan’s affair with Riopelle and, 9.1, 9.2
Joan’s letters to, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 15.1
Joan’s Paris “experiment” and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
Joan’s relationship with, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1
Joan’s sexual adventuring and, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
Lang’s affair with, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1
as painter, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
remanded to psychiatric facilities, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1
Southgate’s affair with and marriage to
“Udnie” as Joan’s nickname for
Golfe-Juan (France), Joan and Jean-Paul’s summers in, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Goodnough, Robert, 4.1, 7.1, 9.1
Goodspeed, “Bobsy” and Charles
Gorey, Edward St. John (Ted), 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Gorky, Arshile, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 13.1
How My Mother’s Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life, 6.1
Grand Prix des Arts of the City of Paris, 16.1, 16.2
Granet, Roseline, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
Greenberg, Clement, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2
Grove Press, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1
Gruen, John, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Guanajuato (Mexico), Joan’s sojourns in
view of mountain La Bufa from, 5.1, 5.2
See also Mexico
Guston, Philip, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 16.1n
Hackett, Malcolm, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Hailey, Phyllis, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 16.1
Harms, Robert, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Hartigan, Grace, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1
Joan’s relationship with, 7.1, 7.2
Persian Jacket, 7.1
Hathaway, Bullock, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Heinzen, Elga, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1
Herald-American, 5.1
Herman, Evans, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 16.1
“A Gift of Violets for Joan Mitchell”
Hess, Thomas B., 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1
Hidden Order of Art, The (Ehrenzweig), 16.1
Hockney, David, itr.1, 14.1, nts.1
Hofmann, Hans, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1
Hofmann School (New York), 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 14.1, 15.1
Holiday, Billie, xxi, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 16.1
Hughes, Milton and Malcolm, 4.1, 4.2
Humanité, L’, 5.1
Illouz, Gabriel, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1
Impressionism, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2
coining of term “Abstract Impressionism” and
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
In Search of Lost Time (Proust), 7.1
International Herald Tribune, 14.1
Isabelle, or Izée (Skye terrier), 11.1, 11.2, 14.1
I Too Have Lived in Arcadia (Lang), 9.1
Iva (German shepherd), 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 15.1
Jackson, Martha, Gallery (New York), 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1
Jackson, Martha Kellogg, 8.1, 10.1
Jaffe, Shirley, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
Janis, Sidney, Gallery (New York), 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
Jeffcoat, Hollis, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2
Joan’s physical relationship with
as Riopelle’s lover, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2
Jenkins, Paul, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2
Jenney, William LeBaron, 1.1, 1.2
Jeu de Paume (Paris), 16.1, 16.2
Jewett, Eleanor, 3.1, 3.2, 16.1n
Joerns, Consuelo (Connie), 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Johns, Jasper, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1, 16.1
Target, 10.1
Johnson, Herbert F., Museum, Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Johnson, Jacqueline. See Onslow Ford, Jacqueline
Jolas, Betsy, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Joy of Painting, The, 16.1
Kandinsky, Wassily, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 15.1, 15.2
Kanovitz, Howard, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1
Katzman, Herbert, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Orwell), 9.1
Kertess, Klaus, 6.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5
Keystone Bridge Company, 1.1, 1.2
Klee, Paul, itr.1
Kley, Elisabeth, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Kline, Franz, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
Joan’s first encounters with, 6.1, 6.2
Joan’s relationship with, 6.1, 7.1
Ninth Street Show and, 6.1, 6.2
as quintessential action painter
Knoedler Gallery (New York), 8.1, 13.1
Koch, Kenneth, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
Kollwitz, Käthe, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Kootz, Samuel, Gallery (New York), 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Krasner, Lee, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1
Kuh, Katharine, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 10.1
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 5.1, 7.1
Mitchells’ summers in, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2
Lake Michigan, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2
“Landscape of Light: Joan Mitchell, The” (Rose)
Lang, Violet (“Bunny”, aka V. R. Lang), 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1
Lanyon, Ellen, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Larson, Christian, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Léger, Fernand, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 6.1
Le Lavandou, France, Joan’s 1949 sojourn in
Leslie, Alfred, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Painting on Four Pieces of Wrapping Paper, 7.1
LeSueur, Joe, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2
Letters on Cézanne (Rilke), 7.1
Levy, Julien, Gallery (New York), 5.1, 6.1
Lichtenstein, Roy, 11.1, 14.1, 16.1
Life, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2
Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago), 2.1, 2.2
Lohengrin (Wagner), 8.1
Lord Chandos Letter, The (von Hofmannsthal), 14.1
Los Angeles Times, 15.1
Lucien, Frédérique, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Maclean’s, 10.1
MacLeish, Archibald, 1.1, 12.1
Madeleine (German shepherd), 13.1, 15.1, 16.1
Maeght, Galerie (Paris), 12.1, 12.2
Maeght, Guiguite, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Maeght Foundation (Saint-Paul-de-Vence), 12.1, 12.2
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Manet, Édouard, 2.1, 4.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2
Fish (Still Life), 5.1
Mantegna, Andrea: Agony in the Garden, 7.1
Mapplethorpe, Robert, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Marca-Relli, Conrad, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
Marcelle (French Canadian friend of Joan), 10.1, 10.2
Marion (German shepherd), 13.1, 15.1, 16.1
Marisol. See Escobar, Marisol
Matisse, Henri, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
France, 5.1
La Danse, 15.1
Open Window, 10.1
Matisse, Marguerite. See Duthuit, Marguerite
Matisse, Patricia Kane, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6
Matisse, Pierre, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1
Matisse, Pierre, Gallery (New York), 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
Matta, Roberto, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 11.1
May ’68 student protests (Paris)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1
Mexico:
Joan’s figure painting in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Joan’s 1946 trip to, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Joan’s plein air landscapes in, 5.1, 5.2
modernist painters in, 5.1, 5.2
Mezzanine Gallery, Francis W. Parker School (North Chicago), 3.1, 3.2
Michaud, Yves, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
Miller, Dorothy, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1
Miller, Robert, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Miller, Robert, Gallery (New York), 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5
Ministry of Culture (France), 15.1, 15.2
Miró, Joan, 3.1, 6.1, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 16.1
Mitchell, Clare (uncle), 1.1, 1.2
Mitchell, Gertrude (aunt), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
Mitchell, Henry Harrison (grandfather’s half brother)
Mitchell, Isaac and Frances Stribling (great-grandparents)
Mitchell, James Herbert (first called Herbert, then Jimmie; father), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 11.1, 14.1, 16.1
art interests of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 11.1, 12.1
dermatological career of, 1.1, 2.1
disappointed that Joan wasn’t a boy, itr.1, 2.1, 9.1, 12.1
Joan’s relationship with, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
marital relationship of, 3.1, 3.2
parenting approach of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 16.1n
self-improvement doctrine of, 1.1, 1.2
summering at Lake Forest, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Mitchell, James Hickman Herndon (grandfather), 1.1, 1.2
Mitchell, Joan:
“Abstract Expressionist” label and, itr.1, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1
amphetamines taken by, 8.1, 8.2
ancestors and family background of
art abilities demonstrated in childhood by, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
art history studied by, 5.1, 7.1
artist’s book by (Poems), 16.1
art school years of, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
art training of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1
athletic pursuits of, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
awards and honors for, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
as billiards player, 10.1, 11.1
cancer diagnoses and, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Chicago homes of, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
childhood of, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1
cigarette smoking of, 4.1, 15.1
college years of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
cracking of paint on canvasses by
cursing and vulgar language of, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 7.2, 16.1n
dating and early romantic attachments of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 (see also Rosset, Barnet, Jr.)
depressions of, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
dogs of, 1.1, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3 (see also George)
drinking of, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
educated at progressive school, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1 (see also Parker, Francis W., School)
evolution of painting style of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2
as figure skater, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
first French museum exhibition, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
first major feature story about
first one-person show in New York, 7.1, 7.2
first solo show at a major museum
French country estate of, (see also Tour, La)
gallery representation of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1
gender bias and (see gender bias)
generous to young and struggling artists and writers, 6.1, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1