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- ↑ "'Joan Mitchell' Is Every part At San Francisco Museum Of Fashionable Artwork". Daily San Francisco Bay News. October 31, 2021.
- ↑ Cascone, Sarah (September 20, 2021). "'We Wanted to Unmoor Her From the 1950s': A Joan Mitchell Retrospective at SFMOMA Shows the Artist as You've Never Seen Her Before". Artnet News.
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