@article{436169,
      recid = {436169},
      author = {Albers, Patricia.},
      title = {Joan Mitchell : lady painter : a life /},
      publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xxi, 514 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead,"  said a New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell in the 1950s.  She was a steel heiress from the Midwest (her grandfather  built Chicago's bridges and worked for Andrew Carnegie).  She was a daughter of the American Revolution--Anglo-Saxon,  Republican, Episcopalian. She was tough, disciplined,  courageous, dazzling, and went up against the masculine art  world at its most entrenched, made her way in it, and  disproved their notion that women couldn't paint. This is  the first full-scale biography of the abstract  expressionist painter who came of age in the 1950s, '60s,  and '70s. Biographer Patricia Albers reconstructs the  painter's large, impassioned, messy, reckless life: her  growing prominence as an artist, her marriage and affairs,  her friendships with poets and painters, her extraordinary  work.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436169},
}