Background
Joullin was born on June 13, 1862, in San Francisco to French parents.
Joullin was born on June 13, 1862, in San Francisco to French parents.
He studied painting at the Art School of San Francisco and then with painter Jules Tavernier.
In 1884, while in Paris, he became impoverished. After returning to the United States in 1886, he was named a professor of painting and design at the San Francisco School of Design, where he stayed for ten years. From 1892 on, he specialized in the Amerindian motifs and traveled to Mexico and New Mexico to paint.
He created the painting called Driving The Golden Spike on the southern arch of the rotunda of the Montana State Capitol.
Foreign his services Joullin was paid a sum of $500. From 1900 through 1905, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and attended the Académie Julian.
Joullin died at his home in San Francisco on February 3, 1917. Transport-Mississippi and international exposition.
Omaha. 1898.
First Annual Painters Salon.
San Francisco. 1901.
Union League Club. New New York 1901.
South Carolina Interstate Exposition.
Charleston. 1902.
Helgesen gallery.
San Francisco. 1910.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition. San Francisco. 1915.
Palace of Fine Arts.
San Francisco. 1916.
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum of San Francisco.
Ball State University Museum of Artist Muncie. Oakland Museum of California.