Karl Wolfe

Karl Wolfe (January 25, 1903 – November 19, 1984) was an American portrait painter and stained glass, mosaic and terracotta artist from Mississippi. He did over 1,000 paintings, including 800 portraits.

Life Wolfe was born on January 25, 1903, in Brookhaven, Mississippi. He grew up in Columbia, Mississippi, and graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Wolfe co-founded the Mississippi Art Colony in Way, Mississippi, in 1948 and taught art at Millsaps College.

Wolfe married Mildred Nungester, also a painter, and they had a son, Michael, and a daughter, Elizabeth. He died on November 19, 1984, in Jackson, Mississippi, at age 80, and he was buried in the Lakewood Memorial Park.

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