Editing Man Ray (section)

===Hollywood===
The [[Second World War]] forced Man Ray to return to the United States. He lived in Los Angeles from 1940 to 1951, where he focused his creative energy on painting. A few days after arriving in Los Angeles, he met [[Juliet Browner]], a first-generation American of [[History of the Jews in Romania|Romanian-Jewish]] lineage. She was a trained dancer who studied dance with [[Martha Graham]],<ref name="Juliet's obituary">{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/21/obituaries/juliet-man-ray-79-the-artist-s-model-and-muse-is-dead.html | title=Juliet Man Ray, 79, The Artist's Model And Muse, Is Dead | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=January 21, 1991 | access-date=December 3, 2014 | author=Flint, Peter B.}}</ref> and an experienced artists' model. They married in 1946 in a double wedding with their friends [[Max Ernst]] and [[Dorothea Tanning]]. They were also close friends with [[Black Dahlia]] suspect [[George Hodel]] and his second wife Dorothy Harvey (also known as Dorero). George Hodel’s son Steve Hodel even proposes that the staging of the murder was an homage to Man Ray’s surrealist creations.<ref>{{cite podcast | url= https://www.iheart.com/podcast/598-root-of-evil-the-true-stor-30467611/ | title= Root of Evil | publisher=iHeart}}</ref> In 1948 Ray had a solo exhibition at the [[William Copley (artist)|Copley Galleries]] in Beverly Hills, which brought together a wide array of work and featured his newly painted canvases of the ''Shakespearean Equations'' series.<ref>Andrew Strauss, "To Be Continued Unnoticed: Mathematics and Shakespeare in Hollywood," in Wendy A. Grossman, et al., ''Man Ray—Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare'', Hatje Cantz, 2015</ref>