Byron Wolfe

Wolfe was born in 1904 in Parsons, Kansas.^[1] He graduated from the University of Kansas.^[1]

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.^[1] With David Hicks Overmyer, Wolfe painted four murals in the library of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas in 1934.^[2] Wolfe gave his painting called Holdin' Herd, Abilene Town, 1968 to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home in Abilene, Kansas.^[3]

Wolfe died in 1973.^[1] His son, Wayne Wolfe, became a painter in his own right.^[4]