Bruce Wolfe is a native Californian, having resided in Northern California nearly all his life. Adept in oils as well as lost-wax bronze, he has received commissions to do busts and figurative portraits of many notables

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 sculpture and painting at the College of Arts in Oakland, California.

Bruce Wolfe has had five solo exhibitions of his work, including one at La Galerie, in Paris, France. Group exhibitions in which he has participated are: Richard MacDonald Gallery, San Francisco; Gallery One, Mendocino; Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek; Civics Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek; American Illustration, New York City; “Rolling Stone, The Illustrated Portraits”, at the Museum of American Illustration, New York City; Northern Arizona University Gallery, “Images of an Era”, Smithsonian, Washington DC and the Rotary Exhibit at the Oakland Museum.

His sculptural works and commissions are numerous and include:

• This spring 2008, a sculpture of Margaret Thatcher is being unveiled at Hillsdale University in Michigan and he is currently working on a sculpture of Barbara Jordan for the University of Texas at Austin. His 8’ sculpture of Howard Jones for Youngstown University in Ohio has also just been installed.
   
• Unveiled in 2007 is an 8’ Crucifix in the newly remodeled church, “Our Mother of Confidence” in San Diego, California, and a bust of Martha Ingram in the new Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
   
• For the 9’ illuminated sculpture of former Mayor Illus. W. Davis of Kansas City, Missouri, he worked with the Architects of the Parks Department, Marc Wilson of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the sculpture Committee. The work is located in the Civic Center Park between the Mayor’s office and the Justice Department.

• Mr. Wolfe installed the 1.2 life size sculpture of John Hannah for the Michigan State University Campus in 2004. It is located at the John Hannah Plaza as a tribute to the University’s president of several decades. The seven-foot sculpture sits upon a black granite base in the center of the plaza. He has also installed this spring, a bust of Dr. Jim Potchen for the new Radiology building on campus.
   
• The 1.2 heroic-sized sculpture of Barbara Jordan in the Austin, Texas, airport was well received at the November 2002 unveiling. Mr. Wolfe was selected to do the sculpture after a comprehensive artist selection process. Each of the six finalists, selected from fifty candidates, did a maquette and presented it, as well as spoke to a panel of judges. He was the chosen sculptor and very honored to do the portrait of Ms. Jordan, a Texan heroine.
   
• The Old Mission in Santa Barbara chose Mr. Wolfe to do four 7’ figures in their historic chapel. Two bronzes of St. Clare and St. Francis, plus a 6’ bronze Damiano Cross were installed in the fall of 2001. The bronze figures of Christ and Mary Magdalene were decorated with orchids and candles and installed for Easter of 2003. The Mission committee sought a modern concept for their parishioners that would blend with the architecture of the historic buildings.
   
• Installed in the New Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, is a portrait of Chong-Moon- Lee, a substantial donor to the Museum, sculpted by Mr. Wolfe. The sculpture was unveiled as part of the formal dedication ceremonies of the Museum in March 2003.
   
• A portrait of Dr. Norman Shumway, the heart transplant pioneer, was unveiled in May 2004 at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
   
• Mr. Wolfe’s “Mother and Daughter” sculpture was installed in front of the Times Performing Center in Jacksonville, Florida, as a touching memorial to Mayor Austin’s wife.
   
• In 1998 he did an 8’ bronze of T. Jack Foster, the founder of Foster City, California. It is placed in front of the new Foster City, City Hall. He also did a 6 l/2’ bronze bas-relief of Benjamin Kalberer for a Hazelton, North Dakota gymnasium.
   
• Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, has a heroic-sized Bruce Wolfe bronze figure of St. John Baptist De La Salle in front of the college, a 54” and 41” bronze of St. Anne and St. Mary for the new chapel and a life-size work of St. Jude. Saint Mary’s also has a bronze portrait of Brother Mel Anderson, former president; and bronze medallion bas-reliefs of Mr. Ageno, and Mr. Syufy, donors to the college. They also have paintings by Mr. Wolfe of Charles Soda, Regent, and other donors: Mr. Frank Filippi, Mr. & Mrs. Linus Claeys, and Mr. & Mrs. Silvio Garaventa.
   
• In 1999 he did a 24” bronze portrait of Steve Silver, creator of the long running San Francisco play, “Beach Blanket Babylon”. The bronze sits atop a large stone in front of the Club Fugazi and is engraved with images from the play.
   
• His 1996 bronze of George P. Shultz, former Secretary of State, is at Stanford University and another one at the Hebrew University in Israel.
   
• Maestro Kurt Herbert Adler was sculpted by Mr. Wolfe for the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, in 1967. It is a 36” bronze bas-relief.

He has also painted portraits of Bruce McCandless, a NASA astronaut, displayed in the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum; Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice, GeorgeWill, Muhammad Ali, John Muir, and Jack London.