American painter
Garner Handy Tullis [ 2] (born 1939) was an American born artist.
Biography
Garner Tullis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio ,[ 3] the son of the industrialist and civic leader Richard Barclay Tullis (1913–1999) and his wife, the painter Chaillé Handy, daughter[ 4] [ 5] of Henry Jamison Handy . Both endowed the Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Principal Viola Chair of the Cleveland Orchestra , currently occupied by Robert Vernon .[ 6] Garner Tullis has two siblings, Sarah ("Sallie")[ 7] and Barclay.
Tullis attended Principia College , and afterwards studied at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1963; B.F.A. 1964[ 8] ), where he was taught by the architect Louis Kahn ; the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz ; and such legendary figures of the New York school as Emilio Vedova , Robert Motherwell , Barnett Newman , David Smith and Mark Rothko . Awarded an extended grant to Italy by the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission , he was able to travel throughout Europe before he studied at Stanford University under a Carnegie Fellowship (M.A. 1967[ 8] ). In 1972, he founded the International Institute of Experimental Printmaking , where he worked together with such notable artists as Richard Diebenkorn , Sam Francis , Helen Frankenthaler , Robert Mangold , Kenneth Noland , Dorothea Rockburne , Robert Ryman , Sean Scully , and William G. Tucker , as well as hundreds of other painters and sculptors, including many younger figures.[citation needed ] His workshop in San Francisco was the first to work extensively with handmade paper.[ 9]
Tullis taught at Bennington College , California State University, Stanislaus , University of California, Berkeley and Davis , as well as at Harvard University . Amongst others, his works belong to the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art , the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and of the Philadelphia Museum of Art .[ 10]
Tullis has three sons and one daughter. His son Richard (b. 1962) also became a printmaker.[ 11]
Literature
^ granted by the Print Club of Cleveland , Cleveland Museum of Art
^ Garner Handy Tullis , Brooklyn Museum.
^ Garner Tullis (1939 - 2019) , AskART.com.
^ Tullis News: Garner Tullis encaustic a siren's song Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine , May 2009.
^ Photo of Jam Handy around 1930 Archived 2012-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
^ Claudia H. Deutsch: Richard Tullis, 86, Ex-Chairman of Harris Corp. , New York Times, November 2, 1999.
^ married name Sarah (Tullis) De Barcza ; also known as Mrs. Charles G. L. De Barcza (W3R-US chairman)
^ a b Tullis, Garner (1939 - ) in Thomas Albright: Art in the San Francisco Bay area, 1945-1980 , p. 318.
^ Castleman, Riva (1991). Seven master printmakers: innovations in the eighties, from the Lilja collection . New York: Museum of Modern Art. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-87070-194-8 .
^ Biography Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine , artist's website.
^ Brief history [permanent dead link ] , Richard Tullis.
External links
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