Luchita Hurtado

Luchita Hurtado , pronunciation [ luˈt͡ʃita urˈt̪aðo ], (born October 28, 1920 in Maiquetía , Venezuela ; † August 13, 2020 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American painter .

Life

Hurtado moved to New York City in 1928 and attended an art school for girls. In 1938 she married the Chilean-American journalist Daniel del Solar. After del Solar left her with two young children, she worked as an illustrator for Vogue . Isamu Noguchi brought them to galleries and introduced them to the painter and art theorist Wolfgang Paalen . In 1947 she married Paalen from Vienna and moved to Mexico City with him and her sons, where she met Frida Kahlo , Diego Rivera and Remedios Varo . After the sudden death of their son Pablo, the family moved to San Francisco . Here in 1949 Wolfgang Paalen, Gordon Onslow Ford and Lee Mullican founded the DYNATON group, a counter-surrealist group, which, however, broke up again in 1951 after several exhibitions. Hurtado married Lee Mullican in 1956 after an amicable divorce and four years after giving birth to son Matt Mullican . In the 1970s she was active in the women's movement. The paintings on display at Made in LA in the Armand Hammer Museum of Art date from this period . Hurtado's work is in the Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Solo exhibitions

1953: Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles
1970: Tally Richards Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1974: Grandview Gallery, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles
1994: Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California
2016: Night Club Gallery, Chicago
2016: Park View Gallery, Los Angeles
2017: Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica
2018: Hammer Museum, Made in LA, Los Angeles, California

Exhibition catalogs

Luchita Hurtado: I live I die I will be reborn. Koenig Books, London 2019, ISBN 978-3-96098-593-8 .

literature

Hans Ulrich Obrist : The artist Luchita Hurtado. In: Das Magazin , September 22, 2018
Chris Wiley: Painter Luchita Hurtado's Illustrious Life and Work is Finally Being Rediscovered . In: Frieze . September 7, 2018 (English, frieze.com ).
Catherine Wagley: Luchita Hurtado: The Way Men Never See Women . In: FlashArt . No. 321 , June 28, 2018 (English, flashartonline.com ).

Web links

Interview with Luchita Hurtado, 1994 , accessed February 3, 2019
Luchita Hurtado. In: hammer.ucla.edu. Hammer Museum , 2018(English, exhibition information).; accessed on August 22, 2020

Individual evidence

↑ Karen Rosenberg: Luchita Hurtado, Artist Who Became a Sensation in Her 90s, Dies at 99. In: The New York Times , August 14, 2020 (English). Retrieved August 15, 2020.

personal data
SURNAME	Hurtado, Luchita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Maiquetía , Venezuela
DATE OF DEATH	August 13, 2020
Place of death	Santa Monica , California , United States

[1] Karen Rosenberg: Luchita Hurtado, Artist Who Became a Sensation in Her 90s, Dies at 99. In: The New York Times , August 14, 2020 (English). Retrieved August 15, 2020.