Abstract Modernist Cast Aluminum Sculpture fire screen by Paul Fullerton,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, in 1967 under the late Hiram Williams. He received his master’s degree in painting, printmaking, and sculpture in 1969 from the University of Illinois. While serving as associate professor of sculpture at Wayne State University in Detroit, he developed the molding and casting process that is characteristic of a large and important body of his work – Most of his large works, which are also great feats of engineering, are located throughout the state of Florida and were sold and placed as part of Florida’s Art in State Buildings program. Nike, Fullerton’s first major sculpture commission, was completed in 1975. Located in Miami’s Biscayne Bay, the sculpture measures fifty feet tall, weighs about one ton, and is mounted on a radial bearing system to turn with the wind. Fullerton spent the last years of his life living and working between Miami and Micanopy, Florida.