Sherry Wolf

Sherry Wolf (born January 27, 1949 ) is an American photorealist painter and fashion designer.

Early life and education Raised in Pikesville, Baltimore, Wolf studied art history at the University of Maryland, where she gained a magna cum laude degree.

As artist In 1970, after graduation, Wolf went to work for NBC Washington as the resident artist for the then NBC Nightly News anchorman David Brinkley, where she produced quick VIP portraits from wired photographs. Also during this period Wolf was a regular attendee of the Studio 54 nightclub. By 1973, her work was widely published, including commercial work for record covers and calendars, and magazine commissions, such as depictions of indigenous peoples for National Geographic. In 1983, when the Albright-Knox Art Gallery acquired Wolf's self-portrait showing her in her studio, it was the gallery's first acquisition of contemporary American realist painting.

In the mid-1980s, until 2006, Wolf stepped back from public life to focus on her family and to bring up her two daughters. and ceased painting for four years. Wolf resumed painting after one of her long-time patrons and fans, the Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub, introduced her to the art dealer Leisa Austin, who hosted Wolf's comeback exhibition in March 2014. Following her daughter's death in 2009, the handbag line went on hiatus for two years. Since relaunching her handbag line in 2011, Wolf has dedicated a bag each season to her daughter's memory, donating all profits from its sale to Bereaved Parents of the USA.