found: Wikipedia, October 5, 2016(Louise Dahl-Wolfe; Louise Emma Augusta Dahl (November 19, 1895-December 11, 1989) was an American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for Harper's Bazaar, in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland. Dahl was born in San Francisco, California to Norwegian immigrant parents. In 1914, she began her studies at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Institute of Art), where she studied design and color with Rudolph Schaeffer, and painting with Frank Van Sloan. She took courses in life drawing, anatomy, figure composition and other subjects over the next six years. She studied design, decoration and architecture at Columbia University, New York in 1923. In 1928 she married the sculptor Meyer Wolfe, who constructed the backgrounds of many of her photos. Dahl-Wolfe was known for taking photographs outdoors, with natural light in distant locations from South America to Africa in what became known as "environmental" fashion photography. She preferred portraiture to fashion photography. Notable portraits include: Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Eudora Welty, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Orson Welles, Carson McCullers, Edward Hopper, Colette and Josephine Baker. She is known for her role in the discovery of a teenage Lauren Bacall whom she photographed for the March 1943 cover of Harper's Bazaar. From 1933 to 1960, Dahl-Wolfe operated a New York City photographic studio that was home to the freelance advertising and fashion work she made for stores including Bonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue. From 1936 to 1958 Dahl-Wolfe was a staff fashion photographer at Harper's Bazaar. From 1958 until her retirement in 1960, Dahl-Wolfe worked as a freelance photographer for Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and other periodicals. Louise Dalhl-Wolfe lived many of her later years in Nashville, Tennessee. She died in New Jersey of pneumonia in 1989)
found: New York times, Oct. 19, 2021:in an article entitled, "A 'Holy Grail' of Folk Art, Hiding in Plain Sight" on page C3 (William Edmondson; lived and died in Nashville, Tenn.; the first Black artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1937; Edmondson was self-taught, he began sculpting in 1934, when he was about 60; he came to the art world's attention around 1936 when a neighbor, the writer Sidney Mttron Hirsch, came across Edmondson's vast sculpture collection. Hirsch's friends introduced Edmondson to several of their artist friends, including Louise Dahl-Wolfe, a photographer for Harper's Bazaar magazine in New York)
