Little Field

“She never stopped aspiring to a deeper understanding of the making of art. If not an innovator, she transformed the gestural painterliness of Abstract Expressionism into a vocabulary so completely her own that it could become ours as well. And her total absorption of the lessons of Matisse and van Gogh led to a mastery of color inseparable from the movement of light and paint. Her ability to reflect the flow of her consciousness in that of nature, and in paint, are all but unparalleled.”
 
Klaus Kertess, Joan Mitchell, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1997, p. 41.