Juliet Man Ray

<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2>
<h3>Early life</h3>
<p>Ray was born Juliet Browner, the daughter of Henry Browner, who had emigrated from Romania and later graduated from the <a href="/facts/Brooklyn_College_of_Pharmacy/fc3pzKo5">Brooklyn College of Pharmacy</a> now known as LIU Pharmacy (the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> She graduated from <a href="/facts/James_Monroe_High_School_(New_York_City)/gxVUTWWF">James Monroe High School</a> and then studied dance with <a href="/facts/Martha_Graham/Gl5KqQP7">Martha Graham</a>, before becoming a model.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h3>Career</h3>
<p>She worked as an art model, often for <a href="/facts/Abstract_Expressionist/MWmgFNSr">Abstract Expressionist</a> painters, and at the age of 30 moved to <a href="/facts/Los_Angeles/pyXpYEX9">Los Angeles</a>, to try to start a movie career.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<h3>Marriage</h3>
<p>She first met the artist <a href="/facts/Man_Ray/HAJXW1Ea">Man Ray</a> in a Los Angeles nightclub.  Man Ray later described the meeting:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<p>After dinner we went to a night club where some of the best jazz of the period was being played. We danced. Juliet was like a feather in my arms.</p>
<p>In 1946, she married Man Ray, in a double wedding with their friends <a href="/facts/Max_Ernst/lwXCga3M">Max Ernst</a> and <a href="/facts/Dorothea_Tanning/KSlczSra">Dorothea Tanning</a>. From 1951, they lived in a studio in Paris near the <a href="/facts/Luxembourg_Gardens/MaABQPS9">Luxembourg Gardens</a> until his death in 1976 at the age of 86.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h3>Death</h3>
<p>She is buried at Paris's <a href="/facts/Montparnasse_Cemetery/UpsvyFtv">Montparnasse Cemetery</a>, alongside her husband.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Juliet Man Ray at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Flint, Peter B (January 21, 1991). "Juliet Man Ray, 79, The Artist's Model And Muse, Is Dead". New York Times. Retrieved November 15, 2016. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/21/obituaries/juliet-man-ray-79-the-artist-s-model-and-muse-is-dead.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/21/obituaries/juliet-man-ray-79-the-artist-s-model-and-muse-is-dead.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Flint, Peter B (January 21, 1991). "Juliet Man Ray, 79, The Artist's Model And Muse, Is Dead". New York Times. Retrieved November 15, 2016. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/21/obituaries/juliet-man-ray-79-the-artist-s-model-and-muse-is-dead.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/21/obituaries/juliet-man-ray-79-the-artist-s-model-and-muse-is-dead.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Juliet Dancing" (PDF). J. Paul Getty Museum. Retrieved May 13, 2024. <a href="https://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/performing_arts/downloads/juliet_dancing.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/performing_arts/downloads/juliet_dancing.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"Juliet Dancing" (PDF). J. Paul Getty Museum. Retrieved May 13, 2024. <a href="https://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/performing_arts/downloads/juliet_dancing.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/performing_arts/downloads/juliet_dancing.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Flint, Peter B (January 21, 1991). "Juliet Man Ray, 79, The Artist's Model And Muse, Is Dead". New York Times. Retrieved November 15, 2016. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/21/obituaries/juliet-man-ray-79-the-artist-s-model-and-muse-is-dead.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/21/obituaries/juliet-man-ray-79-the-artist-s-model-and-muse-is-dead.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"Paris tomb of US artist Man Ray and wife found desecrated". Times of Israel. March 27, 2019. Retrieved May 13, 2024. <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/paris-tomb-of-us-artist-man-ray-and-wife-found-desecrated/" target="_blank">https://www.timesofisrael.com/paris-tomb-of-us-artist-man-ray-and-wife-found-desecrated/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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