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Images from the Henrietta (Henri) McDowell Memorial Photography Collection

Owning Institution: Museum of Performance and Design, Performing Arts Library

About this Collection

This collection contains a sample of images from McDowell's body of work consisting of photographs of important local dancers and dance companies, with a strong emphasis on San Francisco Ballet as she spent nearly 20 years photographing the company. The photographic materials feature such notables as Lew Christensen, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn and several members of the San Francisco Ballet such as Carlos Carvajal, Robert Gladstein, Sally Bailey, Jocelyn Vollmar, and Michael Smuin. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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Betsy Erickson and Gary Wahl in Smuin's Songs of Mahler, circa 1970s
Betsy Erickson and Gary Wahl in Smuin's Songs of Mahler, circa 1970s
Betsy Erickson and Gary Wahl in Smuin's Songs of Mahler, circa 1970s
Betsy Erickson and Jim Sohm in Christensen's Sinfonia, circa 1970s
Betsy Erickson and Zola Dishong in Carvajal's Voyage Interdit, 1966
Betsy Erickson in Carvajal's Voyage Interdit, 1966
Betsy Erickson, Vane Vest, and Jim Sohm in Christensen's Sinfonia, circa 1970s
Carlos Carvajal and Sue Loyd in his work, Three Diversions, 1966
Carlos Carvajal and Sue Loyd in his work, Three Diversions, 1966
Carlos Carvajal collage, undated
Carolyn Houser and San Francisco Ballet dancer, circa 1960s-1970s
Carolyn Houser and San Francisco Ballet dancer, circa 1960s-1970s
Carolyn Houser and San Francisco Ballet dancer, circa 1960s-1970s
Carolyn Houser and San Francisco Ballet dancer, circa 1960s-1970s
Carolyn Houser and San Francisco Ballet dancer, circa 1960s-1970s
Child dancer applying makeup to a fellow child dancer preparing for Christensen's …
Child dancer applying makeup to a fellow child dancer preparing for Christensen's …
Child in front of a promotional poster for Christensen's Beauty and the …
Children attending a performance of Lew Christensen's Nutcracker, circa 1960s
Christie Sharp and David Anderson in Christensen's Divertissment d'Auber (II), circa 1960s
Christine Bennett and John McFall, undated
Christine Heinemann, undated
Constance Coler, 1961
Cynthia Gregory and a female dancer in Christensen's Bach Concert, 1963
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