Background
Wolff, Robert Jay was born on July 27, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Aaron Russell and Martha (Marks) Wolff.
Wolff, Robert Jay was born on July 27, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Aaron Russell and Martha (Marks) Wolff.
Student Yale, 1923-1926. Independent study New York, England, France, 1926-1931.
Exhibited group, one-man shows, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, also France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy. Paintings in permanent collections Tate Gallery, London, Brooklyn Museum Guggenheim Museum, New York City, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Bauhaus Archiv Museum, West Berlin, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago State supervisor ease painting Federal Art Project, Illinois, 1937-1938. Dean, head painting and sculpture School Design (now Institute Design), Chicago, 1938-1942.
Publications designer Knoll Associates, New York City, 1945-1946.
Design consultant General Electric Company, 1945-1948. Consultant director publications design Boris Kroll Fabrics, Incorporated., New York City, 1946-1971.
Professor art Brooklyn College of City Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, 1946-1971, professor emeritus, 1971-1977, department chairman, 1946-1964, head graduate art program, 1964-1969. Visiting Bemus professor art Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1961.
Visiting lecturer Graduate School Design Harvard, 1961.
Served as Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1945, head non-engineering graphics Naval Tgn. Aids Development Center, New York City. Member American Abstract Artists (exhibiting), 1937-1951.
Married Elizabeth Crocker Leighton, August 3, 1949.