Woelffer's work is held in many public museum collections including at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Honolulu Museum of Art, the Montana Historical Society (Helena, Montana), Museum of Art (Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Neuberger Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum,[5] San Diego Museum of Art, Yellowstone Art Museum (Billings, Montana),[6] Asheville Art Museum, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center,[7] and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA).[8]
Personal life
In 1945 he married Dina Anderson, a photographer.[1] Woelffer’s wife, Dina, died in 1990 and he married Marilu Lopez in 1996.[1]
Awards and fellowships
- 1967 – Guggenheim Fellowship, Field of Study: Fine Arts[9] (used for travel to Paris)
- 1974 – Artist Grant, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)[10]
- 1984 – Pollock–Krasner Grant[11]
- 1988 – Francis J. Greenburger Award (in conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum, New York City)
- 1991 – Honorary Doctorate Degree, Otis College of Art and Design
Further reading
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
- Woelffer, Emerson, "At the Center + At the Edge, Curated by Brian Butler", Asheville, North Carolina, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2008.
- Woelffer, Emerson, Emerson Woelffer, A Solo Flight, Curated by Ed Ruscha, Valencia, California, California Institute of the Arts, 2003.
- Woelffer, Emerson, Emerson Woelffer, Profile of the Artist, 1947-1981, Fullerton, California, California State University, 1982.
- Woelffer, Emerson, A Modernist Odyssey: Fifty Years of Works on Paper, Los Angeles, California, Otis College of Art and Design, 1982.