Fred Mitchell (artist)
Fred Mitchell | |
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| Born | Madison Fred Mitchell November 24, 1923 |
| Died | May 21, 2013 (aged 89) New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Abstract expressionism |
Madison Fred Mitchell (November 24, 1923 – May 21, 2013) belonged to the
Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement
of the post-World War II era.
Biography
Fred Mitchell was born November 24, 1923, in
Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), until his studies were interrupted by military duty. After serving in the Army, Mitchell enrolled in the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he eventually received his M.F.A.[2]
He died New York City on May 21, 2013.
Studied painting
- 1942-1943: Pittsburgh, PAwith scholarship
- 1948, 1950, 1951: Accademia di Belle Arti, Instituto Meschini, Rome, Italy
- 1948: Stanley Hayter
- 1956: Bloomfield Hills, MI received MFA
Participation in the Downtown Art Scene
In 1947 Mitchell was the winner of
Tenth Street galleries. His friend Philip Pavia introduced Mitchell to 'The Club'.[5]
Teaching positions
Mitchell was also a highly regarded teacher:
- 1952–1954: Drawing and Painting, Neighborhood House, Riverdale. NY
- 1954: Coenties Slip (Manhattan)School of Art
- 1956: Positano Art Workshop. Positano, Italy
- 1955–1959: Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
- 1961–1968: Downtown Art Center, Seamens Church Institute, Coenties Slip (Manhattan), NY
- 1961–1971: New York University
- 1968–1969: Ithaca, NY
- 1973–1974: CUNY
- 1975–1980: Southern Tip School of Art, South Street Seaport, NY
- 1979–1983: Parsons School of Design Master of Fine Arts program, NY
- 1985–2003: Art Students League of New York;[6]
- 1986–2000: Kingsborough Community College, City University, NY
Selected solo exhibitions
- 1942, 1965: Municipal Gallery, Jackson, Mississippi
- 1953: Tanager Gallery, New York City
- 1954: Neighborhood House, New York, NY
- 1956: Positano Art Workshop, Positano, Italy
- 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963: Howard Wise Gallery, Cleveland, Ohioand New York
- 1964: "i" Gallery, La Jolla, CA
- 1965: Ford Foundation Award, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
- 1966: Wooster Art Center, Danbury, Connecticut
- 1968: Wisconsin State University, Platteville
- 1972, 1988: Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Mississippi
- 1973: Image Gallery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Roko Gallery, New York City
- 1974: Queens, New York; Art Gallery, University of Maine at Machias
- 1976, 1977: Binghamton
- 1979: "Southern Tip Series," South Street Seaport Museum, New York City
- 1982: Landmark Gallery, New York City
- 1984: University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
- 1987: Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery, New York
- 1988: Meridian Community College, Casteel Gallery, Mississippi
- 1996: Horne-Marshall Gallery, Meridian, Mississippi
- 1997: White Box Gallery, Fred Mitchell Recent Works; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1998: Fred Mitchell, Gallery X, New York
- 2003: David Findlay Jr. Gallery, 'Fred Mitchell', New York
- 2005: Noel Fine Art, 'Fred Mitchell: New York Harbor Scenes', Bronxville, New York
- 2007: Joyce Goldstein Gallery, 'Modernism Into Abstraction: Fred Mitchell 1940-1949', Chatham, New York
Selected group exhibitions
- 1945: "Soldier Art" National Army Arts Contest, National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.
- 1946–1949: Detroit, MI
- 1953, 1954: "New York Painting and Sculpture Annual," Stable Gallery, New York City
- 1954–1955: "Young American Painters," circ., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
- 1955: "Vanguard Artists," Minneapolis, MN
- 1956, 1960: "The Founding Five," Tanager Gallery, New York City
- 1958: "Young American Painters," Rome-New York Foundation, Rome, Italy
- 1961: Pittsburgh, PA
- 1962: "Museum of Modern Art in Embassies," Manila, Philippines
- 1967: "Art in American Embassies Abroad," U.S. State Department
- 1968: "Will Insley, Fred Mitchell and Steve Poleskie," A D White Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- 1974: "Nine Artists, Coenties Slip," Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown, NY
- 1975: "Paintings and Watercolors," Clinton, NJ
- 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1983: Buecker & Harpsichords Gallery, NY
- 1980–1982: "New York Painting," Landmark Gallery, New York City
- 1985: "The Gathering of the Avant-Garde: The Lower East Side, 1948–1970," Kenkaleba House Gallery, New York City
- 1990: ULAE Gallery," Waterworks", New York, NY
- 1998: Gallery X, "Revelations", Harlem, NY
- 1999: Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, "The Abstract Tradition: Fred Mitchell, John Ferren, Stephen Pace, John Grillo", New York, NY
- 2004: The Rockford Art Museum, "Reuniting An Era: Abstract Expressionists of The 1950s", Rockford, IL
- 2007: Hackett Freedman Gallery, "A Culture in the Making: New York and San Francisco in the 1950s", San Francisco, CA
- 2008: Robert Miller Gallery, "Beyond The Canon: Small Works in American Abstraction 1945–1965", New York, NY
Notes
- ^ Herskovic, Marika, New York school : abstract expressionists : artists choice by artists: a complete documentation of the New York painting and sculpture annuals, 1951-1957, New Jersey: New York School Press, 2000, p.253
- ^ "Madison Fred Mitchell Obituary". The Meridian Star. June 15, 2013. Archived from the original on July 3, 2013. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
- Downtown Group
- ^ Tanager Gallery:Paintings and sculpture
- ^ Artists' Club
- ^ Instructors and Lecturers-Past and Present at the Art Students League of New York Archived 2010-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
References
- United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division.; National Gallery of Art (US), Soldier art ([Washington] Infantry Journal, ©1945.
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Younger American painters; a selection (from the exhibition held) May 12 to July 25, 1954 (in) the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1954.) p. 32
- Tanager Gallery, Paintings and sculpture (New York, 1956.)
- Franz Kline; Fred Mitchell; Albert Boime; New York (State); State University at Binghamton; University Art Gallery, Neuberger Museum, Franz Kline: the early works as signals. Selected and organized by Fred Mitchell (Binghamton, N. Y. State University of New York, 1977.)
- Charles Le Clair, The art of watercolor (New York : Watson-Guptill Publications, 1994.) ISBN 0-8230-0291-8p. 84-85
- Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6p. 32; 38; 250–253;
- Melville Price, Perle Fine, Robert Richenburg, Michael West, Fred Mitchell, Yvonne Thomas, Abstract expressionism: second to none : six artists of the New York school (Chicago : Thomas McCormick Gallery, 2001.) p. 10-11
- Mary Abbott, Janice Biala, Fritz Bultman, Perle Fine, Fred Mitchell, Melville Price, Robert Richenburg, Yvonne Thomas, Abstract expressionism: second to none : eight artists of the New York school (Chicago : Thomas McCormick Gallery, ©2004.) p. 14-15
- April Kingsley, John Corbett, Jim Dempsey, Thomas McCormick, Georgia Museum of Art, Suitcase paintings : small scale Abstract Expressionism (Chicago, Ill. : Art Enterprises : TMG Projects, ©2007.) p. 45
- Smithsonian Institution Research Information System; Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections, Fred Mitchell
See also
External links
- Fred Mitchell papers in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Fred Mitchell paintings from Askart.com
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