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Lee Mullican (December 2, 1919 – July 8, 1998) was an American
painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...
,
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, and
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. He was an influential member of the Dynaton Movement.


Early life and education

Lee Mullican was born on December 2, 1919, in
Chickasha Chickasha is a city in and the county seat of Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 16,051 at the 2020 census, a 0.1% increase from 2010. The city is named for and strongly connected to Native American heritage, as "Chicka ...
,
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. He studied at the
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in Texas, the
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, and the
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. During
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, he was in the
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and served in Hawaii.


Career and late life

He moved to
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after the war in 1947. Mullican was part of a 1951 exhibition called "Dynaton" held at the
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. Mullican was a member of the
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faculty from 1962 to 1990. His paintings were abstract and have a "rigid" and "linear" quality to them. He applied paint with a printer's knife. Mullicans work was influenced by
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, which is also a trait found in other Dynaton artists work. Mullican married artist
Luchita Hurtado Luchita Hurtado (; born Luisa Amelia García Rodriguez Hurtado; November 28, 1920August 13, 2020) was a Venezuelan-born American painter based in Santa Monica, California, and Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Born in Venezuela, she moved to the United ...
and they had two sons. Their son
Matt Mullican Matt Mullican (born September 18, 1951) is an American artist and educator. He is the child of artists Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado. Mullican lives and works in both Berlin and New York City. Early life and education Matt Mullican was bo ...
is an artist; and their son John Mullican is a writer and director. He died on July 8, 1998, in
Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...
. In 2008, his son John Mullican released the documentary film, ''Finding Lee Mullican''.


References


Further reading

*Eliel, Carol S., Lee Mullican, Amy Gerstler, and Lari Pittman
Lee Mullican an abundant harvest of sun
(
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:
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, 2005) * McCollum, Allan,"The Drawing Appears," in ''Lee Mullican: Selected Drawings, 1945-1980''.
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,
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(1999). *Lee Mullican, "Selected Works," published by Galerie Schreiner, 1980


External links


Oral history interview with Lee Mullican, 1992 May 22-1993 Mar. 4
from
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, Smithsonian Institution.
Interview of Lee Mullican
part o
Los Angeles Art Community - Group Portrait
interview series, Center for Oral History Research, UCLA Library Special Collections,
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. 1919 births 1998 deaths American abstract painters People from Chickasha, Oklahoma 20th-century American painters American male painters UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture faculty Artists from Taos, New Mexico Artists from California 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1910s-stub