(1914-2003) American, Artist and Educator

Emerson Woelffer was a passionate Abstract Expressionist artist recognized for his colorfully totemic paintings and collages. Woelffer’s practice varied from bold abstract strokes evoking
calligraphy to visually complex painted collages. Woelffer was a native of Chicago and was trained at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Starting in the 1940’s he taught alongside László Maholy-Nagy at the Institute of Design in Chicago, was a faculty member of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and spent close to two decades teaching at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.