Mrs Earle (after W. M. Chase) (Portrait of Catherine Hansell French Earle)

 

Henry Wolf

  1852 - 1916 (biography)

1902  

woodengraving 

6 1/2 x 4 7/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

ca 10 

 

exhibited at 1915 PPIE, #7472 

very fine ivory wove 

proof 

artist 

7112 

$500.00 

In 1915, the year before his death, the American wood engraver 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 were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE. This woodengraving was done after an oil painting done in 1902 by W.M. Chase of Catherine Harnell French Earle (reference, Pisano/Baker OP365), wife of Geo. H. Earle, Pennsylvania businessman. Her son, George H. Earle III was governor of Pennsylvania through the Depression. The location of the painting is not known.