Biographical Note
Samuel J. Woolf (1880-1948) was a portraitist, journalist, and illustrator. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1899. He then studied with Kenyon Cox and George de Forest Brush at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design. His artistic career began as a soldier in World War I, when he sketched battle scenes and leaders as an artist-correspondent working for Time and creating intimate depictions of soldiers and statesmen. Woolf returned to the United States, where he produced over 200 charcoal portraits for Time between 1920 and 1935. He also drew portraits for Collier's, the New York Times Magazine, and Newsweek. In 1944 he returned to the European front as an artist and correspondent, where he documented officers, soldiers, battle scenes, the destruction of Europe, and the British civilian response to the war.