May 2, 1946
The Brooklyn Museum will open to the public today a photographic exhibition by Mildred Hatry, outstanding woman photographer. Mrs. Hatry, who was awarded an Associateship in the Photographic Society of America, is the fifth woman in America in more than fifty years to have been awarded a fellowship in the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. The current exhibition which presents a cross-section of her work--landscapes, portraits, interiors--will continue through Sunday, June 2.
During World War II Mrs. Hatry did special assignments for the A.W.V.S. and won honors with her print, “A Star Is Modeled”. She worked weekly with the American Theatre Wing War Service as publicity photographer at the Stage Door Canteen and the Club for Merchant Seamen. She also conducted a class in darkroom technique and photography at Hollaran Hospital, Staten Island.
Three hundred twenty-seven of her films, kodachromes of the southern coast of France, and black and whites of hill towns and scenes in the Alps Maritimes, were borrowed for several months by the Office of Strategic Services.
Her prints have hung in art galleries throughout the United States and Great Britain. At the present time Mrs. Hatry has a one-man show on tour under the auspices of the Photographic Society of America, and pictures in each of their Hundred Print Traveling Exhibition.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1942 - 1946. 04-06/1946, 054. View Original
