Buk Ulreich attended the Kansas City Art School and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He went to New York in 1915 and worked for a year before spending time in the army. He returned to New York in 1923. He designed murals in Chicago in 1924. He was a WPA artist and his work includes wall hangings for the Chicago Temple Building, marble mosaics for the Century of Progress Expo, Chicago and murals at Radio City Music Hall.