The Burchfield Penney Art Center Book Club is open to all. Admission to the Center is free to Members.
Please join us Sundays at 3:00 on the dates listed. We begin with a brief docent led tour of the Center, followed by a discussion of the chosen book.
Please check the Museum Store for book availability at 716-878-3595. Please contact Joseph Lonzi at lonzijp@buffalostate.edu with any questions.
Joan Mitchell – Midwestern steel heiress; ice-skating champion – came of age as an artist on New York’s Tenth Street in the 1950s, knocking back beers at the Cedar Bar with de Kooning, Pollock, Kline, et al; carousing in the Hamptons with Frank O’Hara, Saul Steinberg, Helen Frankenthaler; hanging out with hip cats at the Five Spot; and forging her own path in an art world convinced that women couldn’t paint.
In Joan Mitchell, Patricia Albers brilliantly reconstructs Mitchell’s large and reckless life (her debutante years growing up in the Midwest; the evolution of her extraordinary work; her marriage to Barney Rosset Jr., owner and publisher of Grove Press; her affairs; her exhibitions) as seen through the times, the people, and the worlds of Chicago, Lake Forest, New York, Long Island’s East End, and the expatriate circles of Paris – from the 1920s through the 1990s. from http://www.patriciaalbers.net/books/joan-mitchell-lady-painter