The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 26, 2024

Sides of a River II

Sides of a River II

1981
(American, 1925–1992)
Sheet: 108 x 82.6 cm (42 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.)
© Estate of Joan Mitchell
Catalogue raisonné: 367:JM5
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

To make this print, Mitchell painted clear sheets of Mylar, which allowed her to layer colors for printing and retain a sense of immediacy.

Description

Abstract painter Joan Mitchell’s monumental lithographs convey her experience of the landscape and combine the complexity, intensity, and fluidity of abstracted lines that are fundamental to her work. In this lithograph, part of her Bedford series, 1981, heavily abstracted, dense bands of colorretain traces of the natural world, which can be seen as riverbanks. The expressive, gestural color marks are balanced by the white of the sheet, which also acts as the source of light or reflection off the water.
  • ?-2011
    (Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH)
    2011-2020
    Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection, Cleveland, OH
    September 14, 2020
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Tyler, Kenneth E. Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1974-1985. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1987. 367:JM5
  • Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
  • {{cite web|title=Sides of a River II|url=false|author=Joan Mitchell, Tyler Graphics Ltd.|year=1981|access-date=26 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.248