Barney Rosset
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Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. was a pioneering American book and magazine publisher. An avant-garde taste maker, he purchased Grove Press in 1951, and founded Evergreen Review in 1957, both of which
Barney Rosset
Joan Mitchell
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Joan Mitchell was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artis
Barney Rosset
…NYC gallery exhibit that included graphic photos of wounded and dead Chiang Kai-shek soldiers. In 1949, Rosset married Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, and settled in Greenwich Village. Although Rosset's initial ambition was to be a filmmaker like his childhood friend Haskell Wexler, the documentary…
Mitchell in 1983
Joan Mitchell, ca. 1942, Francis W. Parker School yearbook
Untitled (1960) sold at auction for $11.9 million in 2014, a then record for a work by a female artist.