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Lee Mullican

Lee Mullican

Artist

WA-00028610

PaintingSurrealismStreet ArtRealism

Representation

None documented

2

Institutional Exhibitions

45

Works in Collection

95

Assets Indexed

1

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ6514618 ULAN500002977

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Recent American Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1957

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Modern Art in Your Life

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1949

Field Verification (1 fields)

0 cross-verified · 1 single-source

LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (3)

Marianne-Boeskyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/lee-mullican
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
James-Cohanhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/lee-mullican
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4159
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

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.

Source: Marianne Boesky · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Movement

Surrealism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

Canonical record

Artworks (45)

The Mountain

1969 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 22 1/16 × 30 1/16" (56.1 × 76.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Wave

1969 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 30 1/8 × 22 1/16" (76.5 × 56.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fables

Untitled from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition and sheet: 30 × 20 1/16" (76.2 × 51 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fables

Untitled from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition and sheet: 30 × 20 1/8" (76.2 × 51.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fables

Untitled from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition and sheet (irreg.): 30 × 20 1/16" (76.2 × 51 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition and sheet: 30 1/16 × 20 3/16" (76.3 × 51.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fables

Untitled from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition (irreg.): 27 5/8 × 18 3/8" (70.2 × 46.6 cm); sheet: 30 × 20 1/8" (76.2 × 51.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fables

Untitled from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition and sheet (irreg.): 30 1/16 × 20 1/16" (76.3 × 51 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Colophon page from Fables

Colophon page from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition (irreg.): 10 7/8 × 9 1/8" (27.7 × 23.1 cm); sheet: 30 × 20 1/8" (76.2 × 51.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Feathered Passage

Feathered Passage

1965 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 28 7/16 × 37 13/16" (72.3 × 96.1 cm); sheet: 29 1/8 × 38 1/8" (74 × 96.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Jam Passage

1965 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 18 1/16 × 14" (45.8 × 35.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Title page from Fables

Title page from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition (irreg.): 28 9/16 × 20" (72.5 × 50.8 cm); sheet: 30 × 20 1/8" (76.2 × 51.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fables

Untitled from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition and sheet (irreg.): 30 1/16 × 20" (76.3 × 50.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fables

1965 · Portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition (see child records): dimensions vary; sheet (each approx.): 30 × 20 1/8" (76.2 × 51.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fables

Untitled from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition and sheet (irreg.): 30 1/16 × 20 1/16" (76.3 × 51 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fables

Untitled from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition and sheet (irreg.): 30 1/16 × 20 1/16" (76.3 × 51 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fables

Untitled from Fables

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs

composition and sheet (irreg.): 30 1/16 × 20 1/16" (76.3 × 51 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Colophon from Hungry Ghosts

Colophon from Hungry Ghosts

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs (including title page and colophon)

composition (irreg.): 18 1/8 × 14" (46 × 35.6 cm); sheet: 18 1/8 × 14" (46 × 35.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Hungry Ghosts

Untitled from Hungry Ghosts

1965 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs (including title page and colophon)

composition (irreg.): 17 11/16 × 14" (44.9 × 35.6 cm); sheet: 17 15/16 × 14" (45.6 × 35.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Meditations on a Landscape

Meditations on a Landscape

1964 · Lithograph

composition and sheet: 21 1/8 × 25" (53.7 × 63.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Crayon Country

1964 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 23 × 15 1/4" (58.4 × 38.8 cm); sheet: 23 15/16 × 15 1/2" (60.8 × 39.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Hungry Ghosts

Untitled from Hungry Ghosts

1964 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs (including title page and colophon)

composition and sheet: 18 3/16 × 14" (46.2 × 35.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Hungry Ghosts

Untitled from Hungry Ghosts

1964 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs (including title page and colophon)

composition (irreg.): 17 3/8 × 13 9/16" (44.2 × 34.4 cm); sheet: 18 1/16 × 14 1/16" (45.9 × 35.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Hungry Ghosts

Untitled from Hungry Ghosts

1964 · One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs (including title page and colophon)

composition (irreg.): 17 5/8 × 11 3/16" (44.8 × 28.4 cm); sheet: 18 1/8 × 13 15/16" (46 × 35.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (2)

45 published of 88 catalogued · 87 with image

MoMA
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Art Institute Chicago
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Relationships

6

Movements4

Surrealism Street Art Realism Figuration

Collections2

Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Recent American Acquisitions

New York · 1957

Group Exhibition Modern Art in Your Life

New York · 1949