Dorothea Margaret Tanning

Dorothea Tanning “Otranto” (1988), collage with paper, fabric, watercolor, pastel, and graphite on green paper, 11 x 12 1/2 inches (27.94 x 31.75 cm) (all photos Natalie Weis/Hyperallergic) The ...

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Artnet: Surrealism Was Only a Small Part of Dorothea Tanning’s 70-Year Career. A New Gallery Show Reveals the True Breadth of Her Output

Dorothea Tanning is known as one of the great Surrealists, but a new show at New York’s Kasmin Gallery reveals a very different side of the artist. In the artist’s biggest U.S. show in decades, the ...

Surrealism Was Only a Small Part of Dorothea Tanning’s 70-Year Career. A New Gallery Show Reveals the True Breadth of Her Output

Artnet: Collectors Covet Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealist Work. The Best Is in Short Supply

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“I bought my first Dorothea Tanning as a gallerist about 21 years ago,” art dealer Wendi Norris said in a recent interview. “So it’s been a while.” Norris, whose gallery is in San Francisco, ...

Collectors Covet Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealist Work. The Best Is in Short Supply

Over more than a century, Dorothea Tanning collided and consorted with artistic titans of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso, John Cage and Joseph Cornell. She designed sets for George ...

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Sometimes, what seems merely eccentric may turn out to be essential. Such is the case of the artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), whose works ranged from dreamlike representations to bold and ...

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The Conversation: Dorothea Tanning ‑ an unusual surrealist with a unique female gaze

When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival – an artistic birth, as she later described it – into the surrealist movement. Surrealism is an avant-garde ...