Luchita Hurtado

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Luchita Hurtado (born October 28, 1920)^[1]^[2] is a painter from Santa Monica, California and Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, her second husband was artist and collector Wolfgang Paalen. She lived and travelled in Mexico with Paalen, encountering Rufino Tamayo, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varos, Leonora Carrington, Edward James, Giles Healey and Sheila Healey. Moving to San Francisco, her contacts with artists and collectors included Isamu Noguchi, Gordon Onslow Ford, Jacqueline Johnson, Lucienne Bloch, James Broughton, Rene d'Harnoncourt and Robert Motherwell.

Hurtado's third husband was artist Lee Mullican; their son Matt Mullican is a New York-based artist; their son John Mullican is a Los Angeles based writer and director.

References

↑ http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/collection/hurtad94.htm Oral history interview with Luchita Hurtado, 1994 May 1-1995 April 13, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
↑ "United States Public Records Index". FamilySearch. Missing or empty |url= (help); |accessdate= requires |url= (help)

Other references

Art in the San Francisco Bay area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History; Thomas Albright (p. 41) University of California Press, 1985

Luchita Hurtado in the LA Times

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Name	Hurtado, Luchita
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Date of birth	October 28, 1920
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