Byron Wolfe
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Byron Wolfe (1904-1973) was an American illustrator and painter of the Western United States, American West. His work can be seen at the Kansas State University and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home.


Life

Wolfe was born in 1904 in Parsons, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas. Wolfe began his career as an illustrator. He later became a painter of the American West, and he joined the Cowboy Artists of America in 1966. With David Hicks Overmyer, Wolfe painted four murals in the library of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas in 1934. Wolfe gave his painting called ''Holdin' Herd, Abilene Town, 1968'' to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home in Abilene, Kansas. Wolfe died in 1973. His son, Wayne Wolfe, became a painter in his own right.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfe, Byron 1904 births 1973 deaths People from Parsons, Kansas University of Kansas alumni Painters from Kansas American male painters 20th-century American painters 20th-century American male artists Artists of the American West