A close friend of Legion of Honor cofounder Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, American dancer Loïe Fuller arrived in Paris in the early 1890s to great critical acclaim. Fuller dressed in voluminous swaths of silk that billowed and undulated when she danced on stage, while multicolored lights from many directions were projected onto her. Immediately embraced by the avant-garde artistic circles of the Parisian fin de siècle, her work was represented by numerous artists in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and the early films of the Lumière brothers.