biografia di Henry WOLF (1852-1916)

Birth place: Eckwersheim, Alsace

Death place: New York, NY

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Wood engraver

Studied: J. Levy, in Strasbourg

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1879, 1894-1903; Paris Salon, 1887, 1888 (prize), 1889, 1895 (gold), 1898, 1899; Paris Expo, 1889 (prize), 1900 (medal); Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893 (medal); Boston AC, 1896; Rouen Expo, 1903 (medal); St. Louis, 1904 (prize); Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (prize)

Member: ANA, 1905; NA, 1908; Int. Soc. SP&G; Lotos C.; Union Int. des Beaux-Arts et des Lettres, Paris; Jury, Paris Expo, 1889, 1900; Jury Selection and Awards, Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901; Jury of Awards, St. Louis Expo, 1904

Work: series for Century; portraits, Harper's; LOC; NYPL.

Comments: Came to NYC in 1871. Exhibited wood engravings in the Paris Salon. With T. Cole and W. J. Linton formed the great triumvirate of American wood engravers.

Sources: WW15; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 407; Falk, Exh. Record Series.