“And I came [to New York, 1945]... It was just after the war and I thought it was a little early to get over there [to Europe]. So I spent the winter under the Brooklyn Bridge, on the Brooklyn side, living with Barney Rosset, and I came here [to New York] to study with Hofmann... And I went to Hofmann's class and I couldn't understand a word he said so I left, terrified. But he and I became friends later on. Friends, but I never studied with him..”

— Joan Mitchell

first side of the first tape
1975 - 1992, Oral history interview with Joan Mitchell, 1986

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