Loie Fuller: Magician of Light

Jules Chéret, La Loïe Fuller (Folies-Bergère), 1893. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. CC0.

They worshipped her, they painted her, they imitated her, and then they forgot her. Loie Fuller, the 19th-century dancer who inspired an extraordinary body of sculpture, drawings, photographs, and color lithographs, was captured by artists in almost every conceivable position and creation.Continue Reading →