Biography


Artist Anita Wolff, born in California, is well known throughout the United States for her paintings and classes. She has numerous contributions to books and publications. Her original oil and pastel paintings are created by her use of bold strokes and a colorful palette. She stresses a personal approach to each painting subject.


Anita's paintings are in many collections in the United States and throughout the world. Anita received an invitation from the Norton Simon Foundation in California to display fifty of her paintings. A painting was purchased for the permanent collection.


"My interest in Art started by drawing as a child. Also, living in Southern California, with the beauty of my surroundings, a talented family and the fortune of studying with several Master Painters.


In Her Own Words


"My interest in Art started early. My family was talented, in different interest other than painting. I started drawing when young.


My first experience in real plein air painting happened in Palo Verdes, with a group of watercolorists. I didn't do very well with that medium, but fell for oil painting and pastel.


With several friends, we decided to paint throughout Southern California. This later became serious painting from Palm Springs and Capistrano to New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Mexico, New England, France, Scotland, Italy, Moorea and Tahiti.


Studied Under and Took Classes With


Sergei Bongart, Robert Brackman, Frederic Taubes, Rex Brandt, Herman Margulies, Ben Konis, Professor Bentley Schaad (Otis Art Institute), Ken Paine, Dorothy Colles, Thomas J. Coates, Roy Freer, Leigh Perry and Aubrey Phillips and classes in London, England