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Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony: La Grande Vallée Suite

Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony: La Grande Vallée Suite

Rogers, Lisa
Innerst, Stacy

Hardcover

Art & ArchitectureBiography

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 1662680376
ISBN13: 9781662680373
Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
Published: Feb 25 2025
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.50 Width: 11.60 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
Eureka! Nonfiction Silver Honor Award (California Reading Association)

Celebrate the creative process of pioneering American abstract painter Joan Mitchell in this beautifully illustrated STEAM picture book, perfect for all kinds of young creators.

It's 1983, and American artist Joan Mitchell is in her studio outside Paris, transforming her emotions and memories into a symphony of colors and shapes. Inspired by her friend's description of an idyllic hidden valley in France, Mitchell creates 21 massive paintings--her Grande Vallée series --bursting with vibrant, energizing hues. But she doesn't paint the valley's flowers and meadows. She paints a feeling about them--abundance, freedom, liveliness--creating a harmonious blend of drips, splashes, and brushstrokes in rainbow colors. When the paint dries, it's time to share her valley with the world.

This inspiring, poetic picture book about an influential yet lesser-known American artist provides a snapshot of a creator who deserves as much acclaim as better-known Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning. Author Lisa Rogers shares both the despair and delight Mitchell experienced throughout her career, while acclaimed illustrator Stacy Innerst's bright artwork captures the movement and energy of Mitchell's work, as her paintings develop from page to page.

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