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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.
This program will be offered in person at the Museum’s Farrell Auditorium, and tickets are required. A live stream of the event also can be watched for free. See below for ticketing and registration information.
Joan Mitchell, American, 1925–1992; River, 1989; oil on canvas; diptych: 110 1/4 inches x 13 feet 1 1/2 inches; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris 2023.114a,b; © Estate of Joan Mitchell
Tickets for the on-site program may be reserved in person at the Museum’s Information Centers or through MetroTix. All tickets secured through MetroTix incur a service charge; the service charge is waived for tickets obtained in person at the Museum.
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This lecture will also be livestreamed for free via Zoom and will have automated closed captions. Livestream attendees must register to receive the Zoom link.
A closed-captioned recording of the program may be posted on the Museum’s YouTube channel and at slam.org at a later date.
