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American painter, curator, and art teacher
Lee Mullican (December 2, 1919 – July 8, 1998) was an American
painter ,
curator , and
art teacher .
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[2] He was an influential member of the
Dynaton Movement.
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Early life and education
Lee Mullican was born on December 2, 1919, in
Chickasha ,
Oklahoma .
[1] He studied at the
Abilene Christian University in Texas, the
University of Oklahoma , and the
Kansas City Art Institute .
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During
World War II , he was in the
United States Army and served in Hawaii.
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Career and late life
He moved to
San Francisco after the war in 1947.
[1] Mullican was part of a 1951 exhibition called "Dynaton" held at the
San Francisco Museum of Art .
[5] Mullican was a member of the
UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture faculty from 1962 to 1990.
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His paintings were abstract and have a "rigid" and "linear" quality to them.
[7] He applied paint with a printer's knife.
[7] Mullicans work was influenced by
cosmology , which is also a trait found in other Dynaton artists work.
[8]
Mullican married artist
Luchita Hurtado and they had two sons.
[9] Their son
Matt Mullican is an artist; and their son John Mullican is a writer and director.
[9] He died on July 8, 1998, in
Santa Monica, California .
[1] In 2008, his son John Mullican released the documentary film, Finding Lee Mullican .
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References
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f Oliver, Myrna (1998-07-08).
"Lee Mullican; Influential Surrealist Artist" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2022-01-19 .
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"Review: Lee Mullican's colors crackle with energy" . Los Angeles Times . 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2022-01-20 .
^ Kimball Whiting.
"Lee Mullican (1919-1998)" . sullivangoss.com . Retrieved 2011-06-09 . .
^ Whiting, Sam (January 21, 2021).
"Gertrud Parker, artist and founder of Museum of Craft and Folk Art, dead at 96" . Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide . Retrieved 2022-01-20 .
^ "Art and soul : Internationally known Taos artist Lee Mullican dies". Taos News. July 16, 1998.
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"UCLA Obituary: Lee Mullican" . Retrieved 2011-06-09 .
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b Yau, John (2016-06-12).
"Restless and Rigid" . Hyperallergic . Retrieved 2022-01-20 .
^ Schwendener, Martha (2015-07-16).
"Review: 'All Watched Over' Contemplates Art's Relationship to Technology" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-01-20 .
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b Rea, Naomi (2020-08-14).
" 'Her Legacy Has Only Just Begun': Luchita Hurtado, the Protean Artist Who Gained Renown in Her Final Decade, Has Died at 99" . Artnet News . Retrieved 2022-01-19 .
^ Heffley, Lynne (2005-11-13).
"The Patron of Their Arts" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2022-01-20 .
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"Remembering Luchita Hurtado, painter, eco-warrior and witness to a century of art" . The Art Newspaper . 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2022-01-20 .
Further reading
Eliel, Carol S., Lee Mullican, Amy Gerstler, and Lari Pittman.
Lee Mullican an abundant harvest of sun (
Los Angeles County Museum of Art :
Los Angeles , 2005)
ISBN
978-0-87587-194-3
McCollum, Allan ,"The Drawing Appears," in Lee Mullican: Selected Drawings, 1945-1980 .
University of California ,
Los Angeles (1999).
Lee Mullican, "Selected Works," published by Galerie Schreiner, 1980
External links
International National Artists Other