Joan Mitchell; American Abstract Artist

Joan Mitchell, 66, prize-winning American abstract artist greatly influenced by Monet. A native of Chicago, Miss Mitchell settled in France in 1969, living in Paris and the town of Vetheuil, where the Impressionist master Claude Monet had done much of his work. Her large canvasses, which have been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, combined expressionism with sensuous forms and colors. She received France’s National Grand Prize for Painting in 1969. On Friday in Paris of lung cancer.