Biografie von Hamilton Achille WOLF (1883-1967)

Birth place: NYC

Death place: Oakland, CA

Addresses: Oakland, CA

Profession: Painter, illustrator, educator

Studied: NAD; ASL, with W. M. Chase, R. Henri; Columbia; BAID; Acad. Colarossi.

Exhibited: Seattle AS, 1917 (prize); S. Indp. A., 1918; LACMA, 1922; Galerie Beaux Arts, San Francisco, 1928; Oakland Art Gal., 1929 (prize), 1932, 1939, 1950 (prize); Calif. State Fair Exhib., 1930 (prize), 1934 (prize),1940 (prize); SFMA (prize); Bakersfield, CA (prize); Pomona, CA, 1938 (prize); San Francisco AA, 1939 (prize), 1944 (prize); WFNY 1939; GGE 1939; Western Mus. Assn.; CPLH, 1945, 1946, 1948; CI, 1941; deYoung Mem. Mus., 1943; Roerich Mus.; Riverside Mus.; Mills College; Stanford Univ.; Rotunda Gal., San Francisco; Fnd. Western Artists, Los Angeles; solos: Macbeth Gal.; Delphic Studios; Rutgers Univ.; Oakland Art Mus. (retrospective); Seattle Art Soc.; Gumps Gal.; Mexico City; Instituto de Allende, Mexico; Chase Gal., NY, 1960.

Member: Carmel AA; San Francisco AA (hon. member).

Work: Huntington Lib. and Gallery, San Marino; Washington County Mus., Hagerstown, MD; Georgia Mus. Art, Athens; Univ. Maine; Long Beach (CA) Mus. Art; Henry Gal., Univ. Washington, mural, Shell Laboratories, Emeryville, CA.

Comments: Positions: teacher, Los Angeles Sch. Art, 1911-16; Univ. Washington, 1916-18; Univ. California, 1929-38; California College Arts & Crafts, Oakland, from 1929; Acad. Adv. Art, San Francisco, from 1935.

Sources: WW66; WW47; more recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 614-15.