Jack Wolfe was born Omaha, Nebraska in 1925, and studiedat the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated from Boston Museum of Fine Arts School in 1949. He continued his graduate work in Boston much later, receiving a graduate scholarship from Museum of Fine Arts School in 1959.

Following a rigorous formal disciplne, and eschewing traditional commercial gallery practices, (which he found to be manipulative and excesively monetarily driven) Mr. Wolfe exhibited in many puplic venues, such as the 1955 Carnegie International Exhibition, the 1958 Whitney Annual, and within such institutions as the The DeCordova Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, among others.

ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS

Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 1952, '55, '57
De Cordova Museum, 1953, '57, '59
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1961
Joan Peterson Gallery, Boston, 1961

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 1955
Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., 1957
American Federation of Art, traveling exhibitions, 1956, '57
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1957

AWARDS

1st Annual Margaret Brown Memorial Award, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1957

Jack Wolfe , Havana, oil on canvas, 52 x 52"