Dare’s fashion photography was published throughout the 1950s in Good Housekeeping and other national magazines of the period.ĭare never married. Her painter’s eye for artistic composition helped bridge the transition from model to professional photographer. Now twenty-six and twenty-nine, they discovered that they had the same dry sense of wit, spoke in a similar clipped cadence, and unconsciously mirrored each other’s gestures and facial expressions.ĭare continued to model for major fashion magazines, including a 1951 cover on Cosmopolitan, while she moved closer to the point where she could make a living as a photographer without having to put herself on public display. In 1941, Dare and her brother Blaine met in New York’s Central Park for the first time since they were separated as children at the ages of two and five. Dare and Blaine Wright on Ocracoke Island Dare found steady work as a New York model. Fortunately, the same shyness which prevented Dare from projecting herself onstage could be interpreted as cool and alluring in a fashion photograph. She did get a small part on Broadway in Pride and Prejudice but was never entirely comfortable performing in public. Almost nineteen and a stunning beauty, Dare seemed a natural for show business. Edie’s 1921 Portrait of Dareĭare moved to New York in the fall of 1933 to study painting and acting. As she grew up, conversations paused and heads turned when she walked quietly into a party. We are all composed of particles of the stars buried deep within our bodies, which Dare seemed to radiate with an external luminosity. An ethereally beautiful child, Dare looked very much like the illustrations of mythical Undine herself – a lovely water sprite whose love for a handsome prince was doomed because she wasn’t fully human. Her favorite books were fairy tales like Undine and Tales From The Secret Kingdom that were full of enchantment, spells, and challenges for a heroine to conquer. Encouraged by her mother Edie, Dare learned to sketch, paint, write, and sew. 1916ĭare showed an early creative aptitude while she was growing up in Cleveland. Brother and sister were not to reunite until they were in their twenties, and Dare would never see her father again. There, Edie established herself as an internationally prominent portrait artist. Her father, Ivan, took Dare’s older brother, Blaine, to New York, while Dare and her mother, Edith Stevenson Wright, moved first to Youngstown, Ohio and then settled in Cleveland.

Her parents’ marriage was already fragile by the time Dare was born, and dissolved before Dare turned three.

Dare and Her Doll Edith On An Ocracoke Island Beach In The 1950s Dare Wright’s Journey Of Artistry And Imaginationĭare Wright’s journey began in Toronto on December 3, 1914.

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