id: 441891 accession number: 2020.244.b share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.244.b updated: 2022-06-29 09:01:23.939000 Sunflowers IV, 1992. Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992). Color lithograph; sheet: 144.5 x 104.5 cm (56 7/8 x 41 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.244.b title: Sunflowers IV title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1992 creation date earliest: 1992 creation date latest: 1992 current location: creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: color lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992) - artist * Tyler Graphics Ltd. - printer --- measurements: Sheet: 144.5 x 104.5 cm (56 7/8 x 41 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: ed. of 34 support materials: inscriptions: inscription: In pencil on recto, lower right: “7/34 Joan Mitchell (signed) 1992”, translation: remark: inscription: Embossed lower right translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-2011 footnotes: citations: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection, Cleveland, OH date: 2011-2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: September 14, 2020 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: To make this print, Mitchell painted clear sheets of Mylar, which allowed her to layer colors for printing and retain a sense of immediacy. digital description: Abstract painter Joan Mitchell’s monumental lithographs convey her experience of the landscape and combine the complexity, intensity, and fluidity of abstracted lines that are fundamental to her work. She explored the theme of sunflowers throughout her career, inspired by the surroundings of her home in the Seine valley of France and by the iconic paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. This lithographic diptych tap into the energy, color, and spirit of Van Gogh’s paintings, while entirely liberating the older master’s line, composition, and gesture from a natural representation of the sunflower. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES