Amédée Joullin (3 June 1862, in San Francisco – 3 February 1917, in San Francisco) was a French American painter whose work centered on the landscapes of California and on Native Americans.
[2] He studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and then with the painter Jules Tavernier.
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.
He created the painting called Driving The Golden Spike on the southern arch of the rotunda of the Montana State Capitol.
From 1900 through 1905, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris[3] and attended the Académie Julian.