Joan Mitchell’s ‘City Landscape’ and ‘Untitled’, both from 1955, will be sold this fall by The Rockefeller University to help support groundbreaking biomedical research and advance the University’s founding mission of science for the benefit of humanity.

Founded in 1901 under the singular vision of John D. Rockefeller, The Rockefeller University is among the most highly regarded scientific institutions, having received countless top-tier awards and honors, including 26 Nobel Prizes.

Under the leadership of David Rockefeller and Detlev Bronk, then-president of the University, the spirit of bold discovery and imaginative freedom that defined the University was reflected in the art that Rockefeller believed should be acquired and exhibited throughout the campus. Together with architect Wallace Harrison, they called upon pioneering curator Dorothy Miller to advise the University, leading to the acquisition in 1958 of the two masterpiece paintings by Joan Mitchell, at the time a considerable force in contemporary painting.

Among the largest compositions Mitchell completed in this pivotal year, ‘City Landscape’ and ‘Untitled’ have remained in the University’s collection for over sixty years. Successfully combining nature, emotion and color, Mitchell forged her own unique path founded in Abstract Expressionism across a five-decades long career, celebrating the act of painting itself through a fearlessness with which she wielded her brush, paralleling the pioneering vision and sense of freedom of the University.

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20th Century Evening Sale | New York | 19th November 2024

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