Mrs Otis (after Gilbert Stuart) (Sally Foster Otis, wife of Harrison Gray Otis)

 

Henry Wolf

  1852 - 1916 (biography)

1899  

woodengraving 

6 3/8 x 5 1/4 

pencil, lower right; signed in block 

7 of 9  

pencil titled and dated 

exhibited at 1915 PPIE, #7493 (with orig. label ) 

fine tissue 

proof 

artist 

7093 

SOLD

In 1915, the year before his death, the American wood engraver Henry Wolf won the Grand Prize for his printmaking at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The Wolf prints we have were available for sale at the PPIE and many, such as this, were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE, with his return address and the edition size and original price of $18.00 noted. This engraving, after a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1809 is of Sally Foster Otis (Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis). The oil is in the collection of the Reynolda House Museum of Art, NC. Harrison Gray Otis was a prominent early 19th century Boston politician.