Fables VI
1965
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lithograph (aluminum) on wove Arches paper
Dimensions
sheet: 76.1 x 51 cm (29 15/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1984.34.382.7
Art Historical Context
**Fables VI** by Mullican (1919–1978), in 1965, visitors into the imaginative world of one of America's innovative mid-century printmakers. As the sixth installment in the *Fables* portfolio, this lithograph captures Mullican's signature blend of abstraction and symbolic narrative, reflecting the era's fascination with myth and the subconscious. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's-W department through the generous gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith, it exemplifies how portfolios like this expanded access to original art during the post-war printmaking renaissance. Printed on high-qu...
About the Artist
Lee Mullican
Lee Mullican was an American painter whose visionary, intensely patterned canvases placed him at the intersection of Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and non-Western spiritual traditions. Born in 1919 in Chickasha, Oklahoma, he studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and later at the University of Oklahoma before serving as a cartographer in the United States Army during World War II. That exp...