In the United States, Joan Miró found a space for recognition and
creative freedom. This volume, like the accompanying exhibition,
presents the artist’s North American experience as a pivotal point in his
career.

It describes how, through regular contact and in the course of seven
visits, Miró encountered artists from several generations who admired
his work and to whose energy and spontaneity he responded directly. In addition, the commissions he received from Cincinnati and Harvard, the two monographic exhibitions at MoMA, and the support and
understanding of his art dealer Pierre Matisse and his friend Josep Lluís
Sert were all essential for Miró’s path and its recognition in the United
States.

Contributors: Dawn Ades, Beatriz Cordero, Marko Daniel, Matthew Gale, Patricia Juncosa, Robert Lubar Messeri, Teresa Montaner, Dolors
Rodríguez Roig, Élisa Sclaunick, Elsa Smithgall, and Anne Umland.

Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Joan Miró Foundation, held from October 10, 2025, to February 22, 2026, and at The Phillips Collection, Washington, from March 21, to July 5, 2026; it includes works by Joan Miró.