Henry Wolf (engraver)

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
Henry Wolf, circa 1907, portrait by Emil Fuchs.
Born	Henry Wolf 1852 Eckwersheim, Alsace, France
Died	1916 New York, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Education	Jacques Levy (Strasbourg, France)
Known for	Wood engraving
Notable work	Canal in Artois (1896), Miss Frances Cadwalader (Lady Erskine) (1897), Louis Stern (1905), By the River (1910), Boy with the Torn Hat (1915).
Awards	Panama–Pacific International Exposition Grand Prize in Printmaking, San Francisco, 1915.
Patron(s)	Harper's Monthly, The Century Magazine, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, St. Nicholas Magazine.

Henry Wolf was born on August 3, 1852 in Eckwersheim, France.[1] He lived in Strasbourg and studied under Jacques Levy[2] and exhibited in Paris. Henry Wolf moved to New York City in 1871,[3] 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.[3][4][5][6][7] 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.[1][3] His works are held in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Canton Museum of Art.[4][8]