The artist Luchita Hurtado has died at the age of 99. Born in the Venezuelan city of Maiquetía, Hurtado moved to the US in 1928 - initially to New York, where she worked in the 1940s as an illustrator for Condé Nast and window designer for Lord & Taylor department store. Today she is best known for her Surrealist-inflected paintings and drawings touching on feminism, environmentalism and desire, which came to international attention as recently as 2019, when her first solo museum show was held at the Serpentine Galleries in London. Hurtado died at her home in Santa Monica on 13 August 2020.