Hungry Ghosts
1964/1965
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portfolio w/ 12 lithographs (stone, aluminum and zinc) including title page and colophon on white and buff Arches paper
Dimensions
Overall (approximate): 46 x 35.8 cm (18 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.) accessory size: 48.2 x 37.4 x 1.9 cm (19 x 14 3/4 x 3/4 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
1984.34.370.1-12
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...