Bruce Wolfe - Artist, Sculptor, Painter: Gallery Home

<body> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> <blockquote> <p> </p> <font SIZE="2"><b> <p>Bruce Wolfe</b> is a native California sculptor, adept in oils as well as lost-wax bronze, he is a notable sculptor of memorial statues, religious art, and commemorative sculpture and has received numerous commissions to sculpt bronze memorials of notables such as: Kurt Herbert Adler, Director of the San Francisco Opera; Bruce McCandless, NASA astronaut, displayed in the Smithsonian Aerospace museum; George P. Shultz, former Secretary of State; a bronze portrait at Stanford University and Hebrew University; Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice; John Muir, Naturalist; Brother Mel Anderson, President of SAT. Mary’s College; Jack London, Writer; St. John Baptist De La Salle, founder of the Christian Brothers. His most recent sculptures<b> </b>are liturgical sculpture of a religious nature such as his full-size works of St. Anne and St. Mary, for St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California. He has also recently finished a life-size memorial statue of St. Jude for St. Mary’s. currently, Bruce Wolfe is working on four life-size bronze statues for the Old Mission in Santa Barbara, California, and a portrait sculpture of Chung Moon Lee for the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.</p> <p>He studied art at San Jose State University and the Art Institute of San Francisco. He has also studied with Bettina Steinke and Bruno Lucchesi. Mr. Wolfe has taught figure painting at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, and the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. Bruce Wolfe has shown his work all over the world, including in Paris. He has received many awards, among them a Clio for best illustration in print. Levi Strauss commissioned a poster by Wolfe, which is now in a collection at the Smithsonian called "Images of an Era." He is also responsible for a majority of the popular series of prints for the Lake Tahoe Music Festival. His Clients include: The Asian Art Museum, Anheuser-Busch Inc., Boeing, CBS, Celestial Seasonings, City of Austin, Chevron, Hewlett-Packard, Kenwood Winery, Levi Strauss, Lucas Films, Metro Godwin Mayer, NASA, St. Mary’s College, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, San Miguel International, Santa Barbara Mission, Sierra Club, Sony Music, Stanford University, University of Okalahoma, U.S. Forest Service. </p> <p>Bruce Wolfe has had five solo exhibitions of his sculpture, including one at La Galerie, in Paris, France. Group exhibitions in which he has participated are: Richard MacDonald Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Ruth Carlson Gallery, Mendocino, CA; Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; Balyon Gallery, Carmel, CA; San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; Civics Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; American Illustration, New York, NY; “Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits” at the Museum of American Illustration, New York, NY; Northern Arizona University Gallery and Images of an Era, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.</p> <p><a href="info/index.htm">Click here for more information...</a></p> </blockquote> </font> </body>