Print of the Day!! Saturday, June 20, 2020; Lee Mullican (1919-1998); "Hungry Ghosts IX"; color lithograph; 1964; B.A.T.; $600.00.
Print of the Day!! Saturday, June 20, 2020, is by American printmaker Lee Mullican (1919-1998). A Saturday offering for June 20, 2020. A color lithograph for consideration by the curious.
Untitled "Hungry Ghosts IX" is a color lithograph by American Atelier 17 printmaker and Dynaton co-founder, (1919-1998), done in 1964. The image and paper measure 18 x 14". It is pencil signed and annotated "Bon a Tirer" (Good to Print) in the lower image, a proof apart from the published edition of 20, plus 16 various proofs. It was published by the artist and Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, and printed by the artist and Master Printer Kenneth Tyler on a sheet of antique-white wove BFK Rives paper. A reference for this image is Tamarind 1202.
This scarce color lithograph by American printmaker Lee Mullican is available from the gallery for $600.00.
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Beginning with his participation in the influential Dynaton group in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1950s, with original Surrealists Gordon Onslow Ford and Wolfgang Paalen, Lee Mullican played an important role in the art communities of both Northern and Southern California. Mullican was singled out by the San Francisco Museum of Art for one-man shows and for the celebrated Dynaton exhibition of 1951. When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presented the exhibition Dynaton Revisited in 1977, it called the Dynaton movement "a Bay Area alternative to the New York School of 1950."In 1964 Lee Mullican did a series of lithographs at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc in Los Angeles. These prints evolved into 2 portfolios; "Fables", a suite of 12 lithographs, including a colophon and title page, and "Hungry Ghosts" also a suite of 12 lithographs, also including a colophon and title page.
This image is number nine (IX) from "Hungry Ghosts" and is the "bon a Tirer" (BAT), the impression used to measure all the other impressions from the edition against.
This work was printed with the innovative Tamarind Master Printer Kenneth Tyler, who went on to help form Gemini G.E.L. and then founded Tyler Graphics, Ltd. The Tamarind printing record shows an edition of 20 plus the usual 9 Tamarind Impressions, a BAT (this impression), 2 Artist's Proofs, 3 Trial Proofs and 1 Cancellation Proof, for a total edition of 36 impressions. The blindstamps of both Tamarind and Kenneth Tyler are in the lower right corner.
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