Emerson Woelffer [SEP] place of birth
Emerson Woelffer
Emerson Woelffer (July 27, 1914 – February 2, 2003) was a prominent abstract expressionist artist and painter born in Chicago. He studied Education at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago between 1935 and 1937. In 1938 he joined the WPA Arts Program. In 1949 he taught at Black Mountain College at the request of Buckminster Fuller. Between 1949 and 1959, he lived in Yucatán, Mexico and Forio d'Ischia Naples, Italy. In 1960 he moved to Los Angeles, California and from 1969 to
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- Woelffer, Emerson, "Emerson Woelffer, Profile of the Artist, 1947-1981", Fullerton, California, California State University, 1982.
- Woelffer, Emerson, "A Modernist Odyssey: Fifty Years of Works on Paper", Los Angeles, California, Otis College of Art and Design, 1982.
External links.
- Interview of Emerson Woelffer, part of Los Angeles Art Community - Group Portrait interview series, Center for Oral History Research, UCLA Library Special Collections, University of