Pearl Grace Loehr

Pearl Grace Loehr (born September 29, 1882) was an American photographer and arts educator based in New York.

Born in Warsaw, Indiana, the daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Loehr,[1] she was interested in art from the time she was a child.

She apprenticed with a local artist, who encouraged her to attend art school in Indianapolis, and she then moved to New York to study at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

[8] "She catches them just at the moment when they are most essentially themselves," explained one 1916 profile about her portraits of children, adding "Old Age is equally considered and its peculiar features brought out to perfection".

[13][14] Loehr was appointed to head the new Photographic Department at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1915.

Pearl Grace Loehr, from a 1914 publication.
An example of a child portrait by Pearl Grace Loehr, from a 1916 publication.