He served as Director of the art program at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma, from 1970 until 1976.
[5] He attended Bacone College,[1] where he studied under Acee Blue Eagle,[6] and Woody Crumbo.
[6] His classmates at Bacone College included Walter Richard “Dick” West, Sr. and Oscar Howe, all of which started the early process of departing for traditional Native art and painting-styles, and moving towards Surrealism and engaging in modernist aesthetics.
[1][8] Saul was the first Native American student to receive a MFA degree from the University of Oklahoma.
[9] In 1960, he lived in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and in addition to painting, Saul worked at the Phillips Petroleum Company.