Born in New York City, Ellen Stockdale-Wolfe is a painter and photographer. Inspired by her Sicilian grandfather who carved the Lincoln’s Gettysburg address at the Lincoln Memorial, Ellen worked her way through college and graduate school. Though Ellen considers herself mostly self-taught, she took courses in studio art at the Columbia University School of the Arts while at Barnard College, where she majored in the history of art.
Ellen earned a living as a librarian for 30 years, working as an art cataloger at Butler Library at Columbia University and later at the Frick Art Reference Library, The New York Historical Society and Teachers College, Columbia University.
In 2000 Ellen stopped full-time library work to pursue study of the ancient healing art of Reiki. But it was not until she and her husband found a converted barn in Millbrook that Ellen devoted herself fully to painting and photography, inspired by the beauty of the farmlands and wetlands of Dutchess County and the resident animals. She also wrote a regular nature column for the now defunct Taconic Press.
Ellen has exhibited in New York City and in Dutchess County. Though all her early paintings were destroyed or lost, many of her photographs are in the private collections across the United States and in public collections such as Belmont Race Track and the New York Horticultural Society. She has donated over 200 photographs of Millbrook and the surrounding areas to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, through the auspices of Give2theTroops and ForetheTroops, and to local animal shelters and organizations.
Ellen Stockdale Wolfe joined Fine Art America on November 4th, 2013.
