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Lee MullicanWW-1945-128101

1945·Pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash on ivory wove paper on board·19.9 × 28 cm (7 7/8 × 11 1/16 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1945
Medium: Pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash on ivory wove paper on board
Dimensions: 19.9 × 28 cm (7 7/8 × 11 1/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Lee Mullican

Artist

Lee Mullican

Painting

Lee Mullican was an American painter and muralist working in abstraction and surrealist-inflected figuration from the 1940s onward. His practice engaged with automatic drawing, biomorphic forms, and gestural mark-making, positioning his work within postwar abstract currents while maintaining a lyrical, often dreamlike sensibility. Mullican's approach bridged European surrealism and American gestural abstraction, with particular attention to the relationship between accident and intention in the painting process.

Santa Monica, CA, USA

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