Luchita Hurtado is a painter from Santa Monica

Santa Mônica

Santa Mônica is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 and Arroyo Seco

Arroyo Seco

The Arroyo Seco, meaning "dry stream" in Spanish, is a seasonal river, canyon, watershed, and cultural area in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The Arroyo Seco has been called the most celebrated canyon in Southern California.-River course:...

, New Mexico

New Mexico

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. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, her second husband was artist and collector Wolfgang Paalen

Wolfgang Paalen

Wolfgang Paalen was an Austrian-Mexican painter and theorist.-Early life:Wolfgang Paalen was born in Vienna in 1905, as the first of four sons of the Austrian-Jewish merchant and inventor Gustav Robert Paalen, and his German wife, the actress Clothilde Emilie Gunkel...

. She lived and travelled in Mexico

Mexico

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 with Paalen, encountering Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo

Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....

, Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....

, Remedios Varos, Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington OBE was a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist. She lived most of her life in Mexico City.-Early life:...

, Edward James

Edward James

Edward William Frank James was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement.-Early life and marriage:...

, Giles Healey

Giles Healey

Giles Greville Healey was born in 1901 in New York City. He was educated in France and Germany and later attended Choate Preparatory School; graduating from Yale University in 1924 with a degree in chemistry...

 and Sheila Healey

Sheila Healey

Sheila Healey, was born in 1915 in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Anglo Scots parents. After attending school in West Sussex and Kent, she taught English in Argentina after the death of her father in 1930. In 1935 she moved to England to stay with her sisters...

. Moving to San Francisco, her contacts with artists and collectors included Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi

was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...

, Gordon Onslow Ford

Gordon Onslow Ford

Gordon Onslow Ford was one of the last surviving members of the 1930s Paris surrealist group surrounding André Breton....

, Jacqueline Johnson, Lucienne Bloch

Lucienne Bloch

Lucienne Bloch was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and came to America with her family in 1917. She was the youngest child of internationally famous composer and photographer Ernest Bloch....

, James Broughton

James Broughton

James Broughton was an American poet, and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance...

, Rene d'Harnoncourt

Rene d'Harnoncourt

Rene d'Harnoncourt was an art curator, and a Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1949 to 1967....

 and Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....

.

Hurtado's third husband was artist Lee Mullican

Lee Mullican

Lee Mullican was a painter and art teacher, and an influential member of the Dynaton Movement. He was a member of the UCLA art faculty from 1962 to 1990. He married Luchita Hurtado; their son Matt Mullican is a New York City based artist; their son John Mullican is a Los Angeles based writer and...

; their son Matt Mullican

Matt Mullican

Matt Mullican is a American artist and son of artists Lee Mullican He received his BFA from CalArts in 1974, and rose to prominence as a member of the "Pictures Generation" along with such artists as Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, David Salle, Jim Welling, Sherri Levine, Cindy Sherman, Louise...

is a New York-based artist; their son John Mullican is a Los Angeles based writer and director.

Other references

Art in the San Francisco Bay area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History; Thomas Albright (p. 41) University of California Press, 1985

Luchita Hurtado in the LA Times http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/13/entertainment/ca-mullican13