Emerson Woelffer
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Emerson Woelffer (July 27, 1914 - February 2, 2003) was a prominent abstract expressionism artist and painter born in Chicago, Illinois
Woelffer studied Education at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago between 1935 and 1937. In 1938 he joined the WPA Arts Program. Between 1949 and 1959, he lived in Yucatan, Mexico and Forio d'Ischia Naples, Italy.
In 1960 he moved to Los Angeles, California and from 1969 to 1973 he taught at The California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. He taught again between 1974 and 1989 at The Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. One of his students was Kenneth O. Goehring.
He received the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 1984 and the Francis Greenberger Award, In conjunction with Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York City in 1988. In 1991 he received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA.
His work was the subject of many exhibitions around the United States from 1946 to 2004.
[edit] Books
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
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