Samuel Johnson Woolf

© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reprod…
Samuel Johnson Woolf
© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Samuel Johnson Woolf

American painter, illustrator, and printmaker, 1880–1948
BiographyBorn in New York, Woolf studied with Kenyon Cox and George de Forest Brush at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. He worked as a correspondent in Europe during World War I. After the war he made hundreds of charcoal drawings of famous men for Time Magazine. He was best known as a portraitist.
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