Estate of Lee Mullican
LEE MULLICAN
The Nest Revived, 1948
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 in.
63.5 x 76.2 cm
JCG14822
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled (The Owl), 1949
Oil on canvas
36 x 26 3/4 in.
91.4 x 68.0 cm
JCG9333
LEE MULLICAN
Pink Nude in the West Field, 1949
Oil on canvas
37 x 27 in
94 x 68.6 cm
JCG14827
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1949
Oil on canvas
31 5/8 × 41 5/8 × 1 3/4 in.
80.3 × 105.7 × 4.4 cm
JCG9061
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1948
Oil on canvas
30 x 39 3/4 in.
76.2 x 101 cm
JCG14821
LEE MULLICAN
Kachinas, 1948
Oil on canvas
23 1/4 x 33 1/4 x 1 7/8 in.
59.1 x 84.5 x 4.8 cm
JCG14824
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1950s
Acrylic on wood and twine
26 x 37 x 8 1/4 in.
55.9 x 94 x 21 cm
JCG13555
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1950-55
Twigs, string, and feathers
56 3/4 x 19 x 2 in.
144.1 x 48.3 x 5.1 cm
JCG14817
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, N.D.
Acrylic on wood and twine
74 1/2 x 62 1/2 x 7 in.
189.2 x 158.8 x 17.8 cm
JCG13556
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1950s
Painted wood
18 1/2 x 6 x 2 1/2 in.
47 x 15.2 x 6.3 cm
JCG14816
LEE MULLICAN
LMT-11-4.TGA, “Spare Game”, 1987
.TGA file
512 x 482 pixels
JCG15020
JCG15014
LEE MULLICAN
Installation View
Pictured: Untitled, 1985
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1985
Fired and glazed ceramic
18 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7 in.
47 x 21.6 x 17.8 cm
JCG11234
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1985
Fired and glazed ceramic
26 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 10 in.
67.3 x 24.1 x 25.4 cm
JCG10374
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1985
Fired and glazed ceramic
21 x 6 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
53.3 x 16.5 x 14.6 cm
JCG11229
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1985
Glazed ceramic
20 x 12 x 14 in.
50.8 x 30.5 x 35.6 cm
JCG13603
LEE MULLICAN
Effigy Pot, Snake Priest, 1985
Fired and glazed ceramic
14 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.
36.2 x 14 x 12.1 cm
JCG11228
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1985
Fired and glazed ceramic
21 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
54 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm
JCG13602
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1992
Oil on canvas
55 x 216 in.
139.7 x 548.6 cm
JCG14828
LEE MULLICAN
The Source - East, 1981
Oil on canvas
80 x 50 in.
203.2 x 127 cm
JCG10359
LEE MULLICAN
The Source - West, 1981
Oil on canvas
80 x 50 in.
203.2 x 127 cm
JCG10360
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1980-81
Oil on canvas
50 1/8 x 40 in.
127.3 x 101.6 cm
JCG10361
LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1980-81
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 in.
127 x 101.6 cm
JCG10363
James Cohan is pleased to present Lee Mullican: The Nest Revived, on view from January 12 through February 25, 2023, at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at James Cohan. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, January 12 from 5-7 PM.
Lee Mullican: The Nest Revived spans six decades of formal experimentation by the late West Coast artist. This exhibition brings together important early paintings and rarely-seen wooden assemblages from the 1940s and 50s along with a monumental painting, totemic ceramics, and a groundbreaking digital artwork from the 1980s.
Mullican was a seeker. Drawing on a wide range of influences, he moved between painting and sculpture to push abstraction and pattern beyond the surface of the canvas. The exhibition reflects upon the dynamic processes that defined Mullican’s art-making and reveals the artist’s enduring belief in the spiritual dimension of abstraction. This sensibility was rooted in a lifetime’s study and appreciation of non-Western, global artistic traditions. The 1948 painting from which the exhibition takes its title, The Nest Revived, suggests that for Mullican, the natural world was a place of endless and regenerative inspiration, a point of both origin and return.
To explore the exhibition in our Online Viewing Room, please click here.