Luchita Hurtado

Luchita Hurtado (Caracas, Venezuela, October 28, 1920)^[1][2] is a painter from Santa Monica, California and Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Her second husband was artist and collector Wolfgang Paalen. She lived and travelled in Mexico with Paalen, encountering Rufino Tamayo, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Edward James, Giles Healey and Sheila Healey. Moving to San Francisco, her contacts with artists and collectors included Isamu Noguchi, Gordon Onslow Ford, Jacqueline Johnson, Lucienne Bloch, James Broughton, Rene d'Harnoncourt and Robert Motherwell.

Hurtado's third husband was artist Lee Mullican; their son Matt Mullican is a New York-based artist; their son John Mullican is a Los Angeles based writer and director.

References

1. ↑ http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/collection/hurtad94.htm Oral history interview with Luchita Hurtado, 1994 May 1-1995 April 13, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
2. ↑ "United States Public Records Index". FamilySearch.  Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)

Other references

• Art in the San Francisco Bay area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History; Thomas Albright (p. 41) University of California Press, 1985

Luchita Hurtado in the LA Times