| LC control no. | nr2003024735 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hurtado, Luchita, 1920-2020 |
| Variant(s) | Garcia Rodriguez, Luchita, 1920-2020 Hurtado, Luchita, 1920- Mullican, Luchita, 1920-2020 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Los Angeles (Calif.) Arroyo Seco (N.M.) Mexico City (Mexico) Venezuela |
| Birth date | 1920-11-28 |
| Death date | 2020-08-13 |
| Place of birth | Maiquetía (Venezuela) |
| Place of death | Santa Monica (Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Painters |
| Found in | Oral history interview with Luchita Hurtado, 1994 May 1 and 1995 Apr. 13: (Luchita Hurtado, b. 1920; painter; Santa Monica, Calif. and Arroyo Seco, N.M.) The New York Times, Luchita Hurtado, artist who became a sensation in her 90s, died at 99, Aug. 14, 2020, viewed online Aug. 14, 2020 (died Thursday night [August 13] at her home in Santa Monica, Calif.; a near-contemporarry and friend of Frida, Kahlo, Isamu Noguchi and Agnes Martin; active in art scenes of New York, Mexico City, Taos, N.M., and Los Angeles where she had lived since 1951; born Nov. 28, 1920 in Maiquetía, Venezuela; emigrated to New York at age 8 with mother, sister and aunts; took classes at the Art Students League; moved to Mexico City in the mid-1940s to join second husband, Austrian-Mexican artist Wolfgang Paalen; they moved to Mill Valley, Calif. in 1949, where she reconnected with Lee Mullican, an artist linked to Dynaton art movement like Mr. Paalen, who became her third husband in the 1950s; she moved to Los Angeles in 1951 and remained there, with second home in Taos; her artwork gained some recognition in Los Angeles in the 1970s, but she remained largely unknown until 2015, when her late husband's studio director discovered a trove of paintings and works on paper, initialed "L.H.", and learned that it was her work; she was then using the name Luchita Mullican) linked video clip, Luchita Hurtado: Here I Am/Art21 (her birth name was Garcia Rodriguez; chose Hurtado from her grandmother on her mother's side as a more distinctive name) |
| Associated language | eng |
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