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BRUCE WOLFE

(1941 - )

Sculptor, Artist, Illustrator, and Designer


Born: March 29, 1941 in Santa Monica, California.
Education: Studied art at San Jose State University and the Art Institute of San Francisco; Studied portrait painting with Bettina Steinke, sculpture with Bruno Lucchesi.
Biography: Bruce Wolfe is a native Californian, having resided in Northern California nearly all his life. Adept in oils as well as lost-wax bronze, he has received commissions to do portraits of many notable figures. Mr. Wolfe has earned numerous honors for his work, including a Clio, Endowment of Arts Federal Achievement Award, First Place at the Art of the Portrait Conference 2001, a Joseph Henniger Award, Zellerbach and Foster & Kleiser Awards. He studied art at San Jose State University and the Art Institute of San Francisco. He has also studied with Bettina Steinke and Bruno Lucchesi. Mr. Wolfe has taught figure painting at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, and sculpture and painting at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.


Selected Exhibitions
Bruce Wolfe has had several solo exhibitions of his work, including:

1995
Art Attack Gallery, Incline Village, NV

1994
Balyon Gallery, Carmel, CA.

1993
Bohemian Club, San Francisco, CA.

1976
La Galerie, Paris

1968
Pantechnicon, San Francisco, CA.


Group exhibitions include:

1994
Ruth Carlson Gallery, Mendocino, CA

1993
"Freehand, the Fine Art of Illustration," Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1992
Balyon Gallery, Cannel, CA.

1992
"Four From Before" San Jose State University, CA

1991
World's Most Memorable Posters, Paris

1987
About Faces, Civics Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek

1987
American Illustration Big Faces, New York

1981
Forbes, Schwartz, Wolfe, Northern Arizona University

1974
Images of an Era, 1945-74, Smithsonian


Selected Awards

Mr. Wolfe has earned numerous honors for his work, including:

2001:
First Place at the Art of the Portrait Conference

1994:
San Francisco Society of Illustrators, Gold Award 1993 San Francisco

1994:
Society of Illustrators, Gold Award and Silver Awards

1992:
Endowment of Arts, Federal Design Achievement Award

1987:
Los Angeles Society of Illustrators, Best of Show/Joseph Henniger Award

1984:
Clio, Best Illustration in Print Award

1976:
Zellerbach, Most Effective Use of Paper Award

1975 Los Angeles Society of Illustrators, Best in Show Published Award

1971:
Foster & Kleiser, Outdoor Advertising Award

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