Bidspirit auction | Edwin Fulwider, Indiana / Arizona

Edwin Fulwider, Indiana / Arizona (1913 - 2003), Empire Builders, 1933, lithograph, 8 1/4”H x 15 - Edwin Fulwider Indiana / Arizona (1913 - 2003) Empire Builders, 1933 lithograph signed, titled, and numbered Imp. 30 lower margin. Biography from Covington Fine Arts Gallery, Inc.: A Painter, printmaker, educator and designer, Fulwider was born in Bloomington Indiana. His art studies included the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis where he studied under Henrik Mayer, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 1933, Fulwider spent time with Thomas Hart Benton when Benton was working on a large mural for the Chicago World's Fair. In 1936 Fulwider was awarded the Milliken Traveling Fellowship for travel and study abroad. The following year he visited England, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Italy. In 1938 he moved to Nashville, in Brown County Indiana and established a studio and devoted his entire time to painting and printmaking. In 1939 he was invited to exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco and the painting that was exhibited ”Deadhead” was reproduced in Life Magazine that year. In 1940 Fulwider accepted a position as an instructor of drawing, painting and graphic art in the School of Fine Arts at Miami University in Oxford. Ohio. During World War II Fulwider was a supervisor of Technical publications at Wright-Patterson Field in Dayton, Ohio. He taught at the John Herron Art School in Indiana from 1945 to 1947 and at the Cornich School in Seattle from 1945 to 1949. From 1949 to 1973, Fulwider was Professor of the Art Department at Miami University in Ohio, serving as its Chairman from 1963 to 1968 and retiring from Miami in 1973. While living for many years in the Northwest, he painted industrial images, landscapes and railroad scenes in Idaho, Washington and Oregon. He retired to the Pacific Northwest and spent his later years in Arizona. Fulwider was the recipient of 22 awards, he exhibited at the Butler Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, John Herron Art Museum, Carnegie Institute, Cincinnati Art Museum, Dayton Art Museum, Indiana University, Seattle Museum of Art, the Hoosier Salon, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Speed Art Museum and many other professional venues. His works are included in numerous Museums and Corporate art collections. 8 1/4”H x 15 1/4”W (Plate), 16”H x 20”W (Mat)