Samuel Johnson Woolf
Renowned portraitist and war artist-correspondent
Born in New York City into a family long active in the arts, Woolf was a portrait artist and printmaker. He studied at the Art Students League and at the National Academy of Design under Kenyon Cox and George deForest Brush. He is best known for his portraits, some commissioned by Collier's magazine, and others paired with interviews that appeared in The New York Times in the 1920s. Wolf served as an artist-correspondent during both World Wars I and II. His work was widely exhibited and resides in the permanent collections of numerous public and private institutions. He died at New York City.
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Master student
- Kenyon Cox Master
- George deForest Brush Master
Artworks by this artist
- Byron Patton Harrison 1933
- Oscar Hammerstein II 1946
- Carrie Chapman Catt 1939
- George N. Peek 1933
- Henry John Kaiser 1944
- Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky 1928
- John Donald Budge c. 1933
- Pearl S. Buck 1938
- Vannevar Bush 1945
- Wallis Warfield Simpson 1936
- Alfred Emanuel Smith 1928
- Calvin Coolidge 1923
- Eleanor Medill Patterson 1937
- Ingrid Bergman 1946
- Joseph Bartlett Eastman c. 1930
- Ludwig Mueller c. 1935
- William Brockman Bankhead 1937
- Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay c. 1930
- Mark Twain c. 1919-20
- Paul Robeson c. 1943