Fitch Fulton studied at the Art Students League of New York city and at the Art Institute of Chicago under Vanderpoel, Freer, and J. Francis Smith. He came to San Francisco in 1913 to continue doing set design work, and moved to Los Angeles in 1916, where he worked for Fox Studios and others. He was a member of the Academy of Western Painters, the California Watercolor Society and the California Art Club, among others.