Hungry Ghosts VIII
1964
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph (aluminum and zinc) in transparent violet, black and transparent blue-green on white Arches paper
Dimensions
sheet: 46 x 35.5 cm (18 1/8 x 14 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
1984.34.370.9
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...