Paul J. Karlstrom and Susan Ehrlich Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Barry M. Heisler Introduction Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1990
Lee Mullican (b. 1919), 1990, 1980, 1980s, 1961, 1960, 1954, 1952, 1942,
"Born in Chickasha, Oklahoma on 2 December 1919, Mullican developed an interest in art in his teens which he nurtured with coursework at universities in Texas and Oklahoma. Subsequently, he trained for a year at the Kansas City Art Institute and earned his diploma in 1942. Later that year he entered the Army Corps of Engineers. Serving as a topographic draftsman in the California desert, the South Pacific, and Japan, he constructed maps and photomosaics from aerial photographs . . .
". . . Mullican . . . settled in Los Angeles [in 1952].
". . . In 1954 he joined Rachel Rosenthal's Instant Theater . . .
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"A Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960 enabled the artist to stay in Rome (where he established a friendship with Rico Lebrun) . . . By 1961, he was back in Los Angeles, conducting summer school classes at the University of Southern California, enjoying a retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, and joining the faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles where he currently teaches.
". . . In 1980 Mullican was awarded a thirty-year retrospective at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery in Barnsdall Park, and eight year later enjoyed a two-man show with his son Matt . . . at the University of New Mexico. At the close of the 1980s, he was honored with a retrospective at the Heritage Museum in Santa Monica . . ." p. 146