Fred Mitchell

Art Brokerage: Fred Mitchell American Artist: b. 1923-2013. Fred Mitchell was born in 1923 in Meridian, Mississippi and studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills. A 1947 scholarship from Pepsi Cola allowed him to travel to Rome, where he met painters John Hliker, Afro, and Philip Guston. This experience, and especially Guston's paintings, had a great impact on the young Mitchell, who returned stateside in 1951 and settled in New York City. Once in New York, Mitchell was one of the first artists to live and work on Coenties Slip. This then-dilapidated industrial street in lower Manhattan would grow into a bustling creative hub, where artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana, and Agnes Martin would later convert cold water flats into large studios. The communal creativity of the Slip also manifested in the Tananger Gallery, which Mitchell founded in 1952 along with Angelo Ippolito, Lois Dodd, Charles Cajori, and William King. Listings wanted.