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Catalogue
- Year
- 1940
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 12 3/8 × 11" (31.5 × 27.9 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Artist
Photography
Louise Dahl-Wolfe was an American photographer known for her sophisticated use of color and geometric composition in fashion and portrait work during the mid-twentieth century. Working primarily in the 1940s and 1950s, she developed a distinctive approach to studio lighting that emphasized clean lines and bold chromatic relationships. Her photographs appeared regularly in Harper's Bazaar and other major publications, establishing a visual language that departed from the softer pictorialism of her contemporaries. She worked across fashion, still life, and portraiture with equal technical precision and formal invention.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe
- Year
- 1940
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 12 3/8 × 11" (31.5 × 27.9 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1940-M051597
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





