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Marc Selwyn Fine Art

Beverly Hills

Lee Mullican

(American, 1919–1998)

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Lee Mullican

Untitled, 1961

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Lee Mullican

High Way, 1969

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Lee Mullican

Magic Eye, 1964

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Lee Mullican

Untitled, 1985

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Biography

Timeline

1919
Born in Chickasha, OK
1937
Attended Abilene Christian College, Abilene, TX
1939
Attended University of Oklahoma, Norman OK
1941
Attended Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1959
Received Guggenheim Fellowship
1961
Taught at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
1962
Taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, California
1963
Received Institute of Creative Arts Award, Univ. of California
1964
Received Tamarind Lithograph Workshop Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions

2015
Lee Mullican Exhibitions in 2015:
Paintings 1956-1977, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
(solo exhibition)
2014
Lee Mullican Exhibitions in 2014:
Meditations on a Line, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills (solo exhibition)
2013
Lee Mullican Exhibitions in 2013:
Down to Earth: Modern Artists and the Land, Before Land Art, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Unruly, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Highlights from the Harwood Museum of Art’s Collection of Contemporary Art, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Musuem, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Lee Mullican Exhibitions in 2012:
Local Color, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Selections of American Modernsim, Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Conversation with the Curators: Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Pacific Standard Time Art in Los Angeles 1950-1980, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
The Postwar Era: From the Collection, 1945-1980, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2011
Lee Mullican Exhibitions in 2011:
Important Paintings from the 1950’s, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Abstract Now and Then Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Taos Moderns, Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2009
Lee Mullican Exhibitions in 2009:
Works from Rome, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Los Angeles
2008
Lee Mullican Exhibitions in 2008:
Paintings from the 1970’s, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
Master Works, Fenix Gallery, Taos, New Mexico (solo exhibition)
Traces du Sucre, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
100 Works/100 Artists – A through Z, The Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, CA
2007
Lee Mullican Exhibitions in 2007:
Lee Mullican: Paintings 1952-1968, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (solo exhibition)
2006
Lee Mullican Exhibitions in 2006:
Abundance, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
Paintings from the 1960’s , Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
1998
Lee Mullican Exhibitions in 1998:
Lee Mullican and his Influence, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo) Oct. 3, 1998

Public Collections

Public Collections, Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Oakland Museum, California
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
English (US)

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