1. Luchita Hurtado's work has strong environmental and feminist themes that bridges many genres, bearing influence from different art movements and cultures.
21 Facts About Luchita Hurtado
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Luchita Hurtado was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019.
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Luchita Hurtado was born in Maiquetia, Venezuela, on November 28,1920.
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Luchita Hurtado's mother moved from Venezuela to New York with her two sisters and worked as a seamstress.
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Luchita Hurtado studied fine art at Washington Irving High School, took classes at the Art Students League, and volunteered at La Prensa, a Spanish-language newspaper where she met her first husband, Chilean journalist Daniel de Solar.
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The couple married when Luchita Hurtado was 18 years old, and went on to have two children together.
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Luchita Hurtado subsequently married Wolfgang Paalen, an artist and collector, after being introduced to him by Isamu Noguchi.
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Luchita Hurtado wanted to have another child, while Paalen did not, so the couple divorced.
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Gilmour was the half-sister of Isamu Noguchi, so Noguchi and Luchita Hurtado became close, often visiting galleries together.
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In 1951, Luchita Hurtado moved to Los Angeles with fellow artist Lee Mullican who she would then marry that same decade, and remained married until his death in 1998.
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Luchita Hurtado died on the night of August 13,2020, at her home in Santa Monica, California.
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Luchita Hurtado died of natural causes, just 76 days short of her 100th birthday.
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In 1944, Luchita Hurtado made window displays and painted murals for Bloomingdale's.
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Outside of her work for Bloomingdale's, Conde Nast, and the two Los Angeles exhibitions she participated in, Luchita Hurtado's work was largely unknown until 2015.
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Luchita Hurtado remained active in the arts until her death, with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibiting a key career survey of hers in February 2020.
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Luchita Hurtado's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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Luchita Hurtado engaged with different styles and drew elements from 20th-century avantgarde and modernist art movements such as surrealism, abstraction, and magical realism.
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Luchita Hurtado incorporated womb imagery into her work long before feminist art would incorporate the same subject matter during the feminist art movement in the late '70s.
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Luchita Hurtado had said that when it comes to this planet, she hoped that it is not too late for people to make a difference; even if it is a small one, everything counts.
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Luchita Hurtado's work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art the Perez Art Museum Miami, and the Museum of Modern Art.
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Luchita Hurtado was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2019.