Lee Mullican

Lee Mullican (December 2, 1919 – July 8, 1998) was an American painter, curator, and art teacher. He was an influential member of the Dynaton Movement, that took its name from a 1951 exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, organized by Grace McCann Morley.

Early life and education Lee Mullican was born on December 2, 1919, in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Mullican was a member of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture 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.

Mullican married artist Luchita Hurtado and they had two sons. He died on July 8, 1998, in Santa Monica, California.