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Fred Mitchell

A Cranbrook graduate and teacher who helped found New York's Tanager Gallery.

This artist's work is shown through the museum and artist links on this page while it remains under copyright or awaits a permission-cleared image.

Mitchell was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He earned his BFA at Cranbrook in 1948 and his MFA in 1956, and taught there from 1955 to 1959.

He moved to New York in 1951, was among the first painters at Coenties Slip, and co-founded the Tanager Gallery in 1952.