Juliet Man Ray

[1] She graduated from James Monroe High School and then studied dance with Martha Graham, before becoming a model.

[1] She worked as an art model, often for Abstract Expressionist painters, and at the age of 30 moved to Los Angeles, to try to start a movie career.

[2] She first met the artist Man Ray in a Los Angeles nightclub.

Man Ray later described the meeting:[2] After dinner we went to a night club where some of the best jazz of the period was being played.

Juliet was like a feather in my arms.In 1946, she married Man Ray, in a double wedding with their friends Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning.