Henry Wolf
Henry Wolf was born on August 3, 1852, in Eckwersheim, France. He lived in Strasbourg and studied under Jacques Levy and exhibited in Paris. Wolf moved to New York City in 1871, where he created wood engravings of works by Gilbert Stuart, Enric Serra Auqué, Frank Weston Benson, Howard Pyle, Henry Salem Hubbell, John Singer Sargent, A. Frost, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Aimé Morot and Édouard Manet.
Henry Wolf
Emil Fuchs · Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum · Public domain
- Name
- Henry Wolf
- Born
- 1852
- Birthplace
- Eckwersheim, Alsace, France
- Died
- 1916
- Place of death
- New York, New York, United States
- Field
- Wood engraving
- Training
- Jacques Levy (Strasbourg, France)
- Awards
- Panama–Pacific International Exposition Grand Prize in Printmaking, San Francisco, 1915.
- Nationality
- France · United States
- Occupation
- printmaker · xylographer · artist
- Languages
- French
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Henry Wolf was born on August 3, 1852, in Eckwersheim, France. He lived in Strasbourg and studied under Jacques Levy and exhibited in Paris. Wolf moved to New York City in 1871, where he created wood engravings of works by Gilbert Stuart, Enric Serra Auqué, Frank Weston Benson, Howard Pyle, Henry Salem Hubbell, John Singer Sargent, A. Frost, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Aimé Morot and Édouard Manet.
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Many of his engravings were published in Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Monthly, and Century Magazine. In 1896 he started engraving his own artwork. He exhibited 144 wood engravings at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. He was awarded the Exposition's Grand Prize in printmaking that year. He died in home in New York City on March 18, 1916. His works are held in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Canton Museum of Art.
Landscape with Cottage and Cows Surrounded by Various Sketches, 1870–1916, by Henry Wolf
Henry Wolf · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Bequest of Janet L. Mack
Cynthia, by Henry Wolf
Henry Wolf · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Dudley P. Allen Fund
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• Name — Henry Wolf • Birth Name — Henry Wolf • Born — 1852 • Birthplace — Eckwersheim, Alsace, France • Died — 1916 • Place of death — New York, New York, United States • Field — Wood engraving • Training — Jacques Levy (Strasbourg, France) • Works — Canal in Artois (1896), Miss Frances Cadwalader (Lady Erskine) (1897), Louis Stern (1905), By the River (1910), Boy with the Torn Hat (1915). • Patrons — Harper's Monthly, The Century Magazine, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, St. Nicholas Magazine. • Awards — Panama–Pacific International Exposition Grand Prize in Printmaking, San Francisco, 1915.
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Henry Wolf is recorded as printmaker, xylographer and artist.
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1852
Henry Wolf was born in 1852 at Eckwersheim.
1916
Henry Wolf died in 1916 at New York City.
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- 1.Levy, Florence Nightingale. American Art Annual, Volume 13. MacMillan Company. 320. 1917.
- 2.WOLF, Henry. The International Who's Who in the World. 1113. 1912.
- 3.Smithsonian American Art Museum. She Was Silent. Search Collections.
- 4.Smithsonian American Art Museum. Berry Pickers' Camp. Search Collections.
- 5.Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Goldfish. Search Collections.
- 6.Smithsonian American Art Museum. A Passage from the Papers. Search Collections.
- 7.The Annex Galleries. Henry Wolf Biography.
- 8.Metropolitan Museum of Art. Produce Exchange. The Call Room. Collections.
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