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Lee Mullican
Space1951

On view: BCAM 3rd FloorModern Art
Abstract painting with a large golden sunburst disk radiating fine yellow lines from a dark central point, scattered with dark brown irregular forms, set against olive-green hatched corners

Lee Mullican, Space, 1951, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Fannie and Alan Leslie, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Lee Mullican
United States,1919-1998
Title
Space
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1951
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Fannie and Alan Leslie
Accession Number
AC1994.180.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • Fox, Howard N. Lari Pittman. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996.
Copyright
© Estate of Lee Mullican

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