Nude with Hat Shadows
Artist: Louise Dahl-Wolfe (American, 1895-1989)
Date: 1946
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm);
Image: 8 x 7 9/16 in. (20.3 x 19.2 cm)
Medium: Vintage gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1984.89
Label Text:Louise Dahl-Wolfe was noted for her strong figural compositions in her fashion and portrait work for Harper’s Bazaar from 1936 to 1958,. In the studio she sometimes created a narrative for her images—occasionally a surreal one—and learned through experience how to use lighting to contrast form and accentuate shape. Her creative placement of the models and props within the frame of the composition was a product of her education at the California School of Fine Arts, where she studied anatomy, drawing, and design. Outside of the studio her work was generally casual and elegant, a product of ‘The New American Look’, where active women replaced staged glamour. In this photograph light and a shadow cast by a lace hat create a surreal composition on the nude body of the model.
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