Garner Tullis was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of the industrialist and civic leader Richard Barclay Tullis (1913–1999) and his wife, the painter Chaillé Handy, daughter 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. Garner Tullis has two siblings, Sarah ("Sallie") and Barclay. Tullis attended
Principia College, and afterwards studied at the
University of Pennsylvania (
B.A. 1963;
B.F.A. 1964), 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 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. Tullis has three sons and one daughter. His son
Richard (b. 1962) also became a printmaker. == Literature ==