Pink Lady, Mural in Malibu, US

Pink Lady is a large-scale mural located on a canyon rock face near Malibu that portrays a nude female figure rendered in shades of pink. The figure rises approximately 60 feet tall and integrates the natural texture and contours of the stone surface into its artistic design.

Lynne Seemayer, a paralegal from Northridge, began cleaning graffiti from the rock above the tunnel's southern entrance in January 1966. She painted the 60-foot nude on the night of Friday, October 28, 1966. After officials failed to remove it with fire hoses and paint stripper, a road crew covered it with brown paint on November 3. Seemayer sued for $1 million; the county counter-sued for $28,000, and both cases were dismissed because the rock was on private property.

The media gave the figure its name, the Pink Lady, after the pink paint used for the skin. The painting drew local news coverage within days of its appearance on the night of October 28, 1966. After it was covered with brown paint on November 3, Seemayer received hate mail and phone calls from people who considered the work obscene, including threats against her and her children, as well as a few gallery offers to show her work.

The Pink Lady no longer exists: a road crew covered it with brown paint on November 3, 1966, and it was later removed from the rock face above the southern tunnel entrance on Malibu Canyon Road. Visitors today see only bare stone at that spot, so plan the drive for the road and canyon, not for the painting.

Seemayer first spent months removing existing graffiti from the rock face, suspending herself on ropes at night, before painting the figure in a single night on Friday, October 28, 1966. She used heavy-duty house paint, which defeated both fire-hose spray and paint stripper when road officials tried to erase it.