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Lee Mullican

Lee Mullican (1919 - 1998) was active/lived in California, Oklahoma.  Lee Mullican is known for Non objective and figurative abstract imagery-luminous.

Reared in the Midwestern suburb of Chickasha, Oklahoma, Lee Mullican was born on December 2, 1919 to Harris Nichols Mullican (1884-1972) and Zula Jolley Mullican (1887-1974).  Introduced to art by his mother, an amateur painter, Mullican's first attempt at painting came with the aid of her art supplies at the age of 15.  Satisfying the wishes of his father, he initially enrolled at Abilene Christian College for two years before transferring to the University of Oklahoma for a year.  Here he established his first off-campus studio -- followed by a brief enrollment at Kansas City Art Institute.

After being drafted into the US Army corps of engineers in 1941, he attended topographic school in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia before being stationed in Hawaii and eventually Japan.  With an abundance of available drawing supplies, access to internationally renowned museums, and the influence of art publications such as Wolfgang Paalen's Dyn, Mullican use   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3612 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Lee Mullican

   Publications  Book References:  39
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Lee Mullican
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTFORUM Reviews October 2006 Editor, Artforum Yes
ARTnews Reviews: October 2006 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Mullican's Magnetic Fields September 2006 Duncan, Michael Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions October 2000 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art in America West Coast Surreal January 1996 Duncan, Michael Yes
39 Book References for Lee Mullican
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Landauer, Susan San Francisco and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism 240 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1996 Karlstrom, Paul J (editor) On the Edge of America California Modernist Art, 1900-1950 308 Yes
1995 Ehrlich, Susan (editor) Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California 1934-1957
(Exhibition catalog)
208 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1992 Museum of Fine Arts Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection 167 Yes
1990 Karlstrom, Paul/Susan Ehrlich Turning the Tide Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-56
(Exhibition catalog)
168 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Hopkins, Henry California Painters/New Work 143 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1984 Witt, David L The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary 63 No
1983 Edgerton, Anne Carnegie The California Connection 16 Paintings/Gifford Phillips Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1981 Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration) Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California 128 Yes
1981 Museum of Fine Arts Light & Color Images from New Mexico 94 Yes
1980 Feinblatt, Ebria/Bruce Davis Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
111 No
1980 Galerie Schreiner Lee Mullican Selected Works 1948-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
80 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Los Angeles County Museum California 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History 124 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 San Francisco Mus Modern Art Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era 272 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Plagens, Peter Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast 200 Yes
1969 Onslow-Ford, Gordon Lee Mullican Paintings 1965-1969
(Exhibition catalog)
32 Yes
1957 Seuphor, Michel Dictionary of Abstract Painting with a History of Abstract Painting 305 Yes
1956 Long Beach Muni Art Center California Painting 40 Painters 90 No
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
60 No
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