Lee Mullican was an American painter, curator, and art teacher. He was an influential member of the Dynaton Movement, that took its name from a 1951 exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, organized by Grace McCann Morley.
He moved to San Francisco after the war in 1947. Mullican was a member of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture faculty from 1962 to 1990. His paintings were abstract and have a "rigid" and "linear" quality to them. He applied paint with a printer's knife. Mullican married artist Luchita Hurtado and they had two sons. He died on July 8, 1998, in Santa Monica, California. ==References==