Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony
La Grande Vallée Suite
$32.44
- Hardcover
40 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2025
Summary
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 Vallee series—bursting with vibr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781662680373 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1662680376 |
| Author: | Lisa Rogers, Stacy Innerst |
| Publisher: | Astra Publishing House |
| Imprint: | Calkins Creek |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 292mm |
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Critics Review
★ “An exploration of Joan Mitchell’s passionate, color-drenched, large-scale abstract paintings. Innerst’s illustrations are fittingly exuberant, rendering Mitchell in grayscale against expressionistic brush strokes and drips in warm yellows, blues, deep greens, and pinks… simply marvelous.“—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“American abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell’s dynamic style and approach are the subject of this lyrical, exuberantly colorful picture-book biography…Rogers’ spare text emphasizes her focus and determined imagination as she works on the paintings, but it’s Innerst’s bold illustrations, filled with thick, bright brushstrokes in riotous color alongside angular, black-and-white drawings of the lanky artist in her studio, that showcase the power of her work.”—Booklist
“Vivid language describes Mitchell’s art… Innerst’s mesmerizing illustrations bring art to life… A lively invitation to explore an important mid-century woman artist and a visual feast that will ignite the imagination.“—The Horn Book
About The Author
Lisa Rogers
Lisa Rogers is a former elementary school librarian. She is the author of Beautiful Noise, illustrated by Il Sung Na, which received three starred reviews, and 16 Words- William Carlos Williams and “The Red Wheelbarrow,” illustrated by Chuck Groenink, which won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Award and the Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award, and was a Bank Street Best Book and a Crystal Kite Award finalist. She is also the author of Hound Won’t Go, a Massachusetts Must-Read, and the co-author of Discover Her Art.
Stacy Innerst is a painter, children’s book artist, and educator. His books have been honored with the Sydney Taylor Award for The Book Rescuer- How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come, the New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award for Ruth Bader Ginsburg- The Case of RBG vs. Inequality, the SCBWI Golden Kite for Picture Book Illustration for The Music in George’s Head.
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