Timeline

1919

Born, New Orleans, LA

1931 - 1932

Began his art studies at age 13 with artist Morris Graves, who was visiting New Orleans, LA

1935

Prep School Munich, Germany, met Hans Hoffman

1937

Studied at Chicago's New Bauhaus School

1938 - 1942

Studied under Hans Hoffman in New York and Provincetown, MA

1940

Met Tennessee Williams in Provincetown, MA, Williams visited Bultman, Greenwich Village, NY in the 1940s

1943

Married Jeanne Lawson, a dancer, in December in New York, NY

1945

Moved to Provincetown year-round

1950 - 1957

Member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionists

1950 - 1959

Taught, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, 1950s

1950

Signed the historical and infamous "Irascibles" Letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, along with all the NY School painters: Barnett Newman, William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Jimmy Ernst, Adolph Gottlieb, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Hans Hoffman, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, James Brooks, Theodoros Stamos, Hedda Sterne, Clyfford Still and Bradley Walker Tomlin.

1951

Bultman was studying sculpture in Italy at the time of the photo shoot for the famous Abstract Expressionist photograph, and was therefore not in the photo, published on January 15
Returned from Italy to Provincetown, MA

1952

Moved back to New York, NY

1955 - 1969

Visited friends Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock in East Hampton, NY

1958

Tennessee Williams visited the Bultman Family home in the Garden District of New Orleans, where he wrote and set the play 'Suddenly Last Summer'

1960 - 1969

Taught at Hunter College, New York, NY, 1960s

1962

Began to devote himself to collages, which would be his primary media for the next two decades

1968

Co-Founded the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, MA

1985

Died, Provincetown, MA