Works
- “In Brittany” (1876)
- “Domestic Life in Normandy” (1878)
- “Puritan Girl” (1881)
- “A Girl of the Colonies” (1903)
- “The Arrow” (winner of the Carnegie prize at the Society of American Artists in 1903)
Examples of Volk's work are found in most American collections, for example in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; in the Corcoran Gallery at Washington, D.C.; in the Pittsfield Museum; in the Minnesota Capitol; in the National Museum at Washington; in the Montclair, New Jersey, Art Museum; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; in the National Arts Club; in the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; in the Muskegon, Michigan, Art Museum; in the Omaha Art Museum and in the Portland, Maine, Art Society; and other places.
Having a lifelong interest in Abraham Lincoln (who, as President-elect, had sat for Volk's sculptor father), Volk also painted several portraits of the President, one of which now adorns the Lincoln bedroom at the White House; another, now at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., was used as model for the three-cent Lincoln postage stamp issued in the 1950s.
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