Jack Wolfe, born 1924- died November 18, 2007

Art Education: Rhode Island School of Design 1942-43
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA 1945-49

Selected group exhibitions
1955 “Carnegie International” Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh PA

1956-57 “New Talent in the USA” American Federation of Art Traveling Exhibition, American Federation of Art, New York

1957 “Young America” Whitney Museum, New York

1957 “Selection” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA

1958 “Whitney Annual”, Whitney Museum, New York

1966-67 “Art for Embassies”, U.S. State Department

1977 “Art in Transition” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA

1978 “Modern and Contemporary Masters” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis Univ.

1983 “Boston Now” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA

1986 “Expressionism in Boston” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA

1989 “Our Wider Selves” Artists Foundation, Boston MA

1995 “Boston’s Honored Artists” Danforth Museum, Framingham MA

1998-99 “Abstract Expressionism/Figurative Expressionism: Common Ground” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA

2002 “New England Currents” Danforth Museum, Framingham MA
Solo Exhibitions
1952 “Jack Wolfe-Paintings” Margaret Brown Gallery Boston MA

1953 “Jack Wolfe-Paintings” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA

1954 “Jack Wolfe-Paintings” Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston MA

1955 Jack Wolfe-Oils” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA

1957 “Jack Wolfe-Paintings” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA

1959 “Recent Paintings by Jack Wolfe” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA

1960 “Traveling Fellow” Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA

1966 “Jack Wolfe/Recent Paintings” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA

1967 “Four Paintings” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA

1973 “Jack Wolfe-Selected Paintings” The Art Complex, Duxbury MA

1976 “Changes” University of Massachusetts Harbor Campus, Boston MA

1980 “Jack Wolfe-Paintings” Schlein Gallery, Boston MA

1982 “Jack Wolfe-Paintings and Portraits” The Art Complex, Duxbury MA

1983 “Jack Wolfe-Recent Work” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA

1995 “Jack Wolfe-Paintings from a Decade” Watson Gallery, Wheaton College

1999 “Jack Wolfe-Outside the Mainstream” Danforth Museum, Framingham MA

2005 "Jack Wolfe-Major Political Work from Six Decades of Paintings" Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Boston

2006: "Honoring the Native American: Portraits by Jack Wolfe," Reilly Gallery, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island

Collections:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA
Fuller Art Museum, Brockton MA
The Art Complex, Duxbury MA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA
Harvard University
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston University
Tufts University
Boston Public Library 

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The artist's website by permission of his daughter.