Seealso:Brownie; Bruguiere, Francis; de Meyer, Baron ; Fashion Photography; Horst, Horst P.; Hoy- ningen-Huene, George; Lange, Dorothea; Museum of Modern Art; Nast, Conde; Photo Secession; Stei-
chen, Edward; Stieglitz, Alfred; Weston, Edward
Biography
Born in Alameda, California, 19 November 1895. Attended
San Francisco Institute of Art, studying design and color
with Rudolph Shaeffer, painting with Frank Van Sloan,
1914–1920; studied interior decoration, design, and archi-
tecture, New York, 1923. Worked as electric sign designer,
California; assistant to Beth Armstrong of Armstrong,
Carter, and Kenyon, San Francisco, 1924; photographed
food forWoman’s Home Companionand fashion for Saks
Fifth Avenue, New York, 1933; staff photographer for
Harper’s Bazaar1936–1958; freelanced forSports Illu-
strated1957–1960 andVogue, 1959; retired from photo-
graphy, 1960. Major holdings of work are at the Center
for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona; National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; and
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee. Died
in Allendale, New Jersey, 11 December 1989.
Individual Exhibitions
1980 The Fashion Photography of Louise Dahl-Wolfe; Cheek-
wood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee
1984 Louise Dahl-Wolfe; Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nash-
ville, Tennessee
Louise Dahl-Wolfe; Staley-Wise Gallery, New York,
New York
1985 Louise Dahl-Wolfe: A 90th Birthday Salute; Museum
of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
1987 Louise Dahl-Wolfe: A Retrospective Exhibition; National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1994 Louise Dahl-Wolfe: The Harper’s Bazaar Portraits 1938–
1958 ; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
2000 Louise Dahl-Wolfe: The American Image; Fashion Ins-
titute of Technology, New York, New York, and the
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Group Exhibitions
1937 Photography: 1839–1937; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1955 Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Meyer Wolfe; Southern Vermont
Art Center, Manchester, Vermont
Fashion: Seven Decades; Hofstra University, Hemp-
stead, New York
1965 Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Photographs/Meyer Wolfe: Sculpture
and Drawings; County Art Gallery, Long Island, New York
1975 Women of Photography, An Historical Survey; San Fran-
cisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1977 The History of Fashion Photography; International
Museum of Photography and Film, George Eastman
House, Rochester, New York (traveled to San Francisco
Museum of Art, California, Cincinnati Art Institute,
Ohio, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida)
1979 Recollections: Ten Women of Photography; Interna-
tional Center of Photography, New York, New York
1979 Fashion Photographs; Cheekwood, the Botanical Gar-
dens and Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee
1982 Color as Form: The History of Color Photography;
International Museum of Photography and Film,
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York and the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1983 Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Paul Outerbridge;GreyArt
Gallery, New York, New York
1984 Style: An Exhibition of Fashion Photographs; Vision
Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1986 Fifty Years of Modern Color Photography; Photokina,
Cologne, Germany
1993 A Second Look: Women Photographers from the Col-
lections of the HRHRC; Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
1999 The Art of William Edmondson; Cheekwood Museum
of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, and travelingSelected Works
Mrs. Ramsey—Tennessee Mountain Woman, 1931, pub-
lished inVanity Fair, 1933
William Edmondson, Sculptor, 1933
Night Bathing, Harper’s Bazaar, June 1939
Lauren Bacall for the American Red Cross Donor Service,
Cover of Harper’s Bazaar, March 1943
Cover, Harper’s Bazaar, September 1949
Suzy Parker in Christian Dior Hat, 1950, published inHar-
per’s Bazaar, April 1953
Colette, 1951Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Suzy Parker in Christian Dior Hat,
Tuileries, Paris, 1950, Gelatin silver print.
[Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University
of Arizona#1998 Arizona Board of Regents]DAHL-WOLFE, LOUISE