Sunday, June 29, 2025

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Alice Rohrer
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe


Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Jo and Edward Hopper
1933
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
William Edmondson
1937
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
William Edmondson
1937
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Dorothy Liebes in her Powell Street Studio, San Francisco
1938
gelatin silver print
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Dorothy Liebes with her Schiaparelli panel
1938
gelatin silver print
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Bette Davis
1938
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Carole Lombard
1938
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Mae West
1940
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Katharine Cornell
1941
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Diana Vreeland
1941
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Spencer Tracy
1942
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
5000 Danish Seamen
1943
photo-lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
5000 Danish Seamen
1943
photo-lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
1946
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1948
gelatin silver print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

The Fifth Ode

What slender Youth bedewed with liquid odours
Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave,
        Pyrrha for whom bind'st thou
        In wreaths thy golden Hair,
Plain in thy neatness? O how oft shall he
On Faith and changed Gods complain: and Seas
        Rough with black winds and storms
        Unwonted shall admire:
Who now enjoys thee credulous, all Gold,
Who always vacant, always amiable 
        Hopes thee of flattering gales
        Unmindful. Hapless they
To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me in my vowed
Picture the sacred wall declares t' have hung
        My dank and dropping weeds
        To the stern God of Sea.

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by John Milton (1673)