PLEASE
NOTE THAT THE ABOVE
INFORMATION HAS BEEN COPIED
EXACTLY FROM ONE OF THE
PROV. DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED
WITH THIS ARTWORK TO THE
PURCHASER.
Bernhard
M. Castle,
July
14, 1997
Mr.
Julius R. Wolf
American,
Born Circa 1930, Cincinnati,
Ohio ? Died 1978, New York
City, New York
Julius
R. Wolf was born in
Cincinnati, the son of
Businessman (department store
owner), and Art Collector.
During his childhood, young
Julius attended a series of
parochial schools in the
Cincinnati area, only to go on
to serve in World War II.
After Wolf returned from the
War, he earned a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Dartmouth in
1951. In 1968, he met his
future life partner, Artist,
Ian Hornak while shopping at
the famed Bergdorf Goodman?s
in New York, and by 1969 Wolf
and Hornak had taken up
residence together at their
jointly owned weekend home in
East Hampton, New York. Wolfs
Parents died in the early
portion of the 1950?s and left
their only son, Julius their
significant collection of Fine
Art and Antiques. Wolf worked
as a prominent casting
director for numerous
important broadcasting
companies along the eastern
seaboard of the United States
between 1952 and 1978,
including NBC, CBS, and PBS;
Latter in his life, he moved
to performing freelance
directorial work on such sets
as ?The West Side Story?, his
occupational focus tended to
be on Dramatic Theatrical
Productions. As a longtime
resident of East Hampton
(Handscreek Road), and a
member of the extremely
prestigious ?Players Club? of
New York City, Wolf came to
meet and ultimately befriend
many of the most important
artists of the twentieth
century such as Willem De
Kooning, Elaine de Kooning,
Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner,
Josef Albers, John Ferren,
Adolph Gottlieb, Lester
Johnson, Joan Mitchell,
Alfonso Ossorio, Ray Parker,
Fairfield Porter, Saul
Steinberg, Jack Youngerman,
Andy Warhol, Ben Burns, Lowell
Nesbitt, Hans Hofmann, Louis
Nevelson, Philip Guston,
Robert Motherwell, Frank
Stella, Robert Indiana,
Phillip Barry, Truman Capote,
Leonard Bernstein, Elmer
Bernstein, Virgil Thompson,
and David Smith among many
others. Julius R. Wolf died
unexpected as a result of an
asthma attack in his apartment
at 26 West 63rd
Street in New York City in
1978.
Wolfs legacy is
preserved through his bequest
of 95 works of art to the Hood
Museum at Dartmouth College in
New Hampshire.
The remaining portion
of the Collection was
dispersed to various friends
upon his death, is now owned
by two avid collectors from
the Midwestern United States
who intend to publish a
catalogue at the end of the
decade of the works known to
have been known to have owned
by Julius R. Wolf, the
catalogue is expected to be
published in multiple volumes.
Written
by,
Bernhard
M. Castle,
Art
Historian,
July
14, 1997
PLEASE
NOTE THAT I HAVE COPIED THE
ABOVE INFORMATION EXACTLY FROM A
COUPLE OF THE PROV.
DOCUMENTS COMPOSED BY BERNHARD
M. CASTLE IN 1997.
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