Henry Wolf (engraver)

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| name = Henry Wolf

| image = Brooklyn Museum - Henry Wolf - Emil Fuchs - overall.jpg|

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| caption = Henry Wolf, circa 1907, portrait by Emil Fuchs.

| alt = Henry Wolf, circa 1907, portrait by Emil Fuchs.

| birth_name = Henry Wolf

| birth_date = 1852

| birth_place = Eckwersheim, Alsace, France

| death_date = 1916

| death_place = New York, New York, United States

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| nationality = American

| field = Wood engraving

| training = Jacques Levy (Strasbourg, France)

| movement =

| 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 (1852–1916) was a French-born wood engraver who lived and worked in the United States during his most influential work period and until his death.

Henry Wolf was born on August 3, 1852, in Eckwersheim, France.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OmAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA320 | title=American Art Annual, Volume 13 | publisher=MacMillan Company | author=Levy, Florence Nightingale | year=1917 |page=320}} He lived in Strasbourg and studied under Jacques Levy{{cite magazine|title=WOLF, Henry|magazine=The International Who's Who in the World|year=1912|page=1113|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1113}} and exhibited in Paris. Henry 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. B. Frost, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Aimé Morot and Édouard Manet.{{cite web|title=She Was Silent|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=28131|work=Search Collections|publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=16 January 2013}}{{cite web|title=Berry Pickers' Camp|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=27908|work=Search Collections|publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=16 January 2013}}{{cite web|title=The Goldfish|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=27981|work=Search Collections|publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=16 January 2013}}{{cite web|title=A Passage from the Papers|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=28080|work=Search Collections|publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=16 January 2013}} 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.{{cite web|title=Henry Wolf Biography|url=http://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/2564/Wolf/Henry|publisher=The Annex Galleries|accessdate=16 January 2013}} His works are held in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the [http://www.cantonart.org Canton Museum of Art].{{cite web|title=Produce Exchange. The Call Room|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/90059964?rpp=20&pg=1&rndkey=20130116&ft=*&deptids=9&where=Alsace&who=Henry+Wolf&pos=2|work=Collections|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=16 January 2013}}

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