Explore the Era

Delve into the postwar Los Angeles art world in this online archive, which provides additional material related to the exhibitions on view at the Getty Center. Learn about hipsters and happenings, and the venues across the city where all the action took place through images from the archives and first-hand accounts with the artists.

Lee Mullican Studio

Beginning in the early 1960s, Lee Mullican rented a studio in Venice at this location that today houses the L.A. Louver Gallery. As Mullican recalled in 1993: “I worked in there, and a lot of people came. It was a great studio. That’s where I met Sam Francis, and Betsy Grant, who’s Cary Grant’s ex-wife . . . even brought Cary to the studio once. Other friends came. I remember even Martha Graham. So if I look back it was a time of real celebration . . . it was great being down there, and it was the height of the Venice years. And I did an awful lot of work there. I did big paintings. I did just a tremendous amount of work.”

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Works of Art

  • Untitled (Venice)

    Untitled (Venice), 1967, Lee Mullican. Oil on canvas. 80 x 120 in. Estate of Lee Mullican, Courtesy of Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles. © Estate of Lee Mullican

Explore the Archive

  • Video: Luchita Mullican on Lee Mullican

    Video: Luchita Mullican speaks about the work of Lee Mullican, July 2011