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\u201cThere are limitless possibilities for poetic image expression through this new medium, and, of course, all poetic evocations stem from nature.\u201d <\/span><\/i>-Gill, Bunny. “Encaustic Outgrowth” Maine Sunday Telegram,<\/em> circa 1964.<\/span><\/p>\n Shulman spent his childhood in Hartford, CT after moving ther<\/span>e<\/span> from Savannah, GA when he was two.\u00a0 He began his art studies at the Goodwill Boys Club in painting and sketching classes. At the age of 17, he moved to New York City and attended the National Academy of Design from 1931-1934. He studied at the Siqueiros Fresco Workshop from 1935-1936 and the following year he was Fresco\u2019s assistant at Bellevue Hospital. Shulman\u2019s first significant exhibition, \u201cAmerican Art Today\u201d was at the 1939 World\u2019s Fair in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n After three years in the Navy during WWII, Shulman attended the Arts Students League, followed by a year studying at the Hofmann School of Art<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 He finished his official schooling at The New School for Social Research in New York in 1950. That same year he received his first watercolor award, exhibiting at the Biennial Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Shulman taught at numerous prestigious schools. In New York, he taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the School of Visual Arts, The Cooper Union, and the New School for Social Research. He also taught at the Philadelphia College of Art in Pennsylvania and The Skowhegan Art School in Maine. His work appeared in numerous exhibitions. Two of the more significant exhibitions were \u201cPainting in Maine\u201d in 1964 at Colby College and an exhibition at Parson\u2019s School of Design in 1977 at the New York WPA Artists Exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n