Luchita Hurtado

Who is Luchita Hurtado?

Luchita Hurtado 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.