The following is from Oneal Boyd:

Born: Bloomington, Indiana

Education: John Herron Art School (School of the John Herron Art Museum, now Indianapolis Museum of Art), Indiana University & Purdue University in Indianapolis. Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Herron Art School 1938.

Professional Experience:
Studio in Brown County, Nashville, Indiana 1938-40
Instructor, Department of Art, School of Fine Arts, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 1940-42
Supervisor, Art Department, Technical Publications, U.S. Army Air Corps.
Wright-Patterson Fields, Dayton, Ohio. 1942-45 (WW II)
Instructor; John Herron Art School, Indianapolis, 1945-47
Instructor, Painting, Cornish School of Allied Arts, Seattle, Washington.
1947-49
Professor of Art, Art Department, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 1949-73.
Chairman of the Art Department, 1963--68
Retired June, 1973, Moved Studio to Northern Idaho until 1992, and then
moved studio to Green Valley, Arizona

Paintings and Prints in Permanent Collections
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Dayton Art Museum, Dayton, Ohio
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Print Collection: Library of Congress
Print Collections; Butler Art Institute, Youngtown, Ohio, Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN; Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; Wolfson
Foundation, Florida;

Exhibitions: In the American Annuals of:
Cincinnati Art Museum, 1940-41-49-50-51-52.
Dayton Art Museum, 1944-45-46-47-48-49-50.
John Herron Art Museum, annually 1935-52.
Art Institute Of Chicago, 1940 & 41 by invitation.
Art Exhibition of The Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco
1939, by Invitation
Northwest Painters, Seattle, Wa. 1947-48
Third National Exhibition of American Art, New York, 1938
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID. Invitational Watercolor show. 1974
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Saint Joseph, MO. 1993 - 2 Oils and 2 prints in show "Under The Influence", an exhibit of work possibly influenced
by Thomas Hart Benton.
Tubac Center of The Arts, Tubac, AZ. 1995 National Aqueous Show.

One-Man Shows:
John Herron Art Museum - 1946
Seattle Art Museum - 1947
Klamath Art Association, Klamath Falls, OR -1948
Studio Gallery, Seattle, WA -1948
Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, MD - 1971
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Spokane Community College, Spokane, WA

BIOGRAPHY

EDWIN FULWIDER Am 1913-2003

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