Dorothy Donovan Hale was born on January 11, 1905 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania to Emma and James Patrick Donovan. Dorothy moved to New York City at age Eighteen and worked as a model, dancer and actress. In 1928, she married muralist Gardner Hale. Dorothy’s premature and tragic death in 1938 was hauntingly memorialized on canvas by iconic artist and friend, Frida Kahlo.
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