About the Artist
New York artist Barbara Wolff is well known for her work in the Time-Life Nature Library, Golden Nature Guides and for publishers; Harper Collins, Doubleday and Scribners, for institutional and corporate clients such as; The New York Botanical Gardens, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Xerox, Ciba-Geigy. She is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists, The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, The Society of Scribes and The Society of Gilders. Her work has been shown at The NY Horticultural Society, The NY Art Directors Show, NY Illustrators Club, Denver Botanical Gardens, the New England Wild Flower Society, Cornwall Library, Greenwich Library, Cornwall Arts Collection, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Yeshiva University Museum and The Museum of Biblical Art (Mobia).
“Her gilded Hebrew calligraphy is exquisite and
ranks among the finest examples of contemporary
illumination.” The New York Sun (10/07)
Gilding the Lily and the Thistle
“The illuminations bring to a single, fine point
Wolff's exquisitely observed botanicals, technical
artistry.”
“Balancing composition, color and technical perfection,
Wolff's miniatures reward close inspection.”
The Forward (3/07)
Barbara Wolff – An Artist's Profile
“The 'Talent' in the title has multiple meanings. It
pays tribute both to Wolff's abilities as well as her
fluency with ancient artists' materials, such as burnished
gold on vellum and hand ground pigments”.
Hadassah Magazine (3/07)
“Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink; Jewish Illuminated
Manuscripts”, Edited by Marc Michal Epstein
“The Illuminated Page", The materials, methods
and techniques section is by Barbara Wolff”
(publication date to be announced)
