 "Life" was purchased in 1936 by another Ridgefield resident, Henry Luce, who turned it into a picture-oriented magazine.The headquarters of Mitchell's "Life" is now the Herald Square Hotel in New York, a gift to Mitchell from Charles Dana Gibson in appreciation of the publisher's having seen and developed his potential as an artist.Mitchell died suddenly on June 29, 1918 at his home in Ridgefield, Connecticut, of apoplexy.