Garner Tullis
{{Short description|American painter}}
{{Infobox artist
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|December 12, 1939}}
| birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
| death_date = {{death-date and age|December 5, 2019|December 12, 1939}}
| death_place = Urbino, Italy
| known_for = Printmaking, sculpture, painting
| training = Principia College,
University of Pennsylvania,
Stanford University
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| awards = * Fulbright Scholarship (1964)
- Fulbright Extension and Travel Grant
- Ralph T. King Award for outstanding contributions to printmakinggranted by the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art
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Garner Handy Tullis[https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/4368/Garner_Handy_Tullis Garner Handy Tullis], Brooklyn Museum. (born 1939) was an American born artist.
Biography
Garner Tullis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,[http://www.askart.com/askart/t/garner_tullis/garner_tullis.aspx Garner Tullis (1939 - 2019)], AskART.com. the son of the industrialist and civic leader Richard Barclay Tullis (1913–1999) and his wife, the painter Chaillé Handy, daughter[http://www.garnertullis.com/Exhibition_May31_2009.pdf Tullis News: Garner Tullis encaustic a siren's song] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021151947/http://garnertullis.com/Exhibition_May31_2009.pdf |date=2013-10-21 }}, May 2009.[http://michigantoday.umich.edu/95/Mar95/mt2am95.jpg Photo of Jam Handy around 1930] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722092524/http://michigantoday.umich.edu/95/Mar95/mt2am95.jpg |date=2012-07-22 }} 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.Claudia H. Deutsch: [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/02/business/richard-tullis-86-ex-chairman-of-harris-corp.html Richard Tullis, 86, Ex-Chairman of Harris Corp.], New York Times, November 2, 1999. Garner Tullis has two siblings, Sarah ("Sallie")married name Sarah (Tullis) De Barcza; also known as Mrs. Charles G. L. De Barcza (W3R-US chairman) and Barclay.
Tullis attended Principia College, and afterwards studied at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1963; B.F.A. 1964[https://books.google.com/books?id=aGN3vXcZl74C&dq=%22Tullis%2C+Garner%22+1939&pg=PA318 Tullis, Garner (1939 - )] in Thomas Albright: Art in the San Francisco Bay area, 1945-1980, p. 318.), 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). 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.{{cn|date=September 2023}} His workshop in San Francisco was the first to work extensively with handmade paper.{{cite book |last1=Castleman |first1=Riva |title=Seven master printmakers: innovations in the eighties, from the Lilja collection |date=1991 |publisher=Museum of Modern Art |location=New York |isbn=978-0-87070-194-8 |page=76 |url=https://archive.org/details/sevenmasterprint0000cast/}}
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.[http://www.garnertullis.com/Biography/biography.html Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711072613/http://www.garnertullis.com/Biography/biography.html |date=2011-07-11 }}, artist's website.
Tullis has three sons and one daughter. His son Richard (b. 1962) also became a printmaker.[http://www.richardtullis.com/Information/Brief_History.html Brief history]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Richard Tullis.
Literature
- David Carrier: Garner Tullis and the Art of Collaboration; New York, NY, US, 1998. {{ISBN|0-9630990-1-9}}
References and footnotes
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External links
- [http://www.garnertullis.com/ Official website]
- [http://www.richardtullis.com/Information/Tullis_History.html Tully's workshops history]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Richard Tullis
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- [https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=garner-handy-tullis&pid=195077317 New York Times Obituary for Garner Tullis]
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Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:21st-century American painters
Category:Italian male sculptors
Category:20th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
Category:21st-century Italian painters
Category:Principia College alumni
Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
Category:Painters from Cincinnati
Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:American male sculptors