Jack Wolfe (artist)
Jack Wolfe (January 1924 - November 2007) was a 20th-century American painter, most known for his abstract art, portraiture, and political paintings.
Life and work
Jack Wolfe was active in the Boston art scene, where he gained acclaim in the 1950s for abstract expressionist works. In the following decades, his abstract works became more large-scale and colorful. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design from 1942–43, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1945-49. He was selected for the prestigious Carnegie International in 1955, and was part of the 1957 "Young America" exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York, in 1957, and the "Whitney Annual" in 1958. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Some of the best known paintings include a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, entitled "Witness, 1962" which toured Europe in 1966-7 with the U.S. State Department "Art for Embassies" program, as well as the 30' anti-Vietnam war painting "'NAM."
References
Jack Wolfe: Recent Work, May 8 - June 19, 1983, DeCordova Museum, 1983, exhibition catalog Young America 1957, editors John I. H. Baur and Rosaling Irvine, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957, exhibition catalog Artist's resume provided by the Jack Wolfe estate, and available online at www.jackwolfestudio.com