A Woman to Know: Dagmar Freuchen-Gale

May 22, 2019

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I guess you could call it love at first sight. — Dagmar Freuchen-Gale

(image via the Irving Penn Foundation*)

In 1938, Dagmar came to New York.

After she'd lost her first husband to World War II, the young artist left her native Denmark and set about crafting a new life in Manhattan, working as a fashion illustrator for America's biggest magazines. Her …

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