Plant Drawings

These works represent a small selection of the numerous plant drawings Hurtado has made in her lifetime, and document her deep engagement with the natural world. In them we see samples of the weeds, flowers, and trees of the Santa Monica Canyon and of Taos, New Mexico, where Hurtado and her late husband Lee Mullican built a house in the 1970s and regularly spent summers.

Hurtado in the garden of her home on Mesa Road in Santa Monica Canyon, 1973

 

Hurtado in the garden of her home on Mesa Road in Santa Monica Canyon, 1973

Photo by Matt Mullican