Lithograph on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joan-mitchell-6461" aria-label="More by Joan Mitchell" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joan Mitchell</a>
Sides a River II
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
abstraction
colour
gestural
non-representational
<p>Mitchell began her career in New York, where she was closely associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement. Much of her work was concerned with her experience of landscape. Although these prints are heavily abstracted, there are strong traces of the natural world, as the title indicates. Dense bands of marks at the top and bottom of the paper can be seen as river banks. The lightly-worked areas between suggest the water of the river itself.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper print lithograph
22 November 2004 – 4 April 2005
2005-04-04
15 November 2004
2004-11-15
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2004-11-22
Tyler Gift
Collection based display
Sides of a River II
image: 1013 × 750 mm
support: 1085 × 826 mm
frame: 1233 × 970 × 36 mm
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
<p>Mitchell began her career in New York, where she was closely associated with the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-expressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract Expressionism'"><span>Abstract Expressionist</span></a> movement. Much of her work was concerned with her experience of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a>. Although these <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> are heavily abstracted, there are strong traces of the natural world, as the title indicates. Dense bands of marks at the top and bottom of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a> can be seen as river banks. The lightly-worked areas between suggest the water of the river itself.
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abstraction colour gestural non-representational