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 ...

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 ...

Dorothea Tanning, Orphans, (1963). Courtesy of the Dorothea Tanning Foundation. It has often been said that Dorothea Tanning had two careers in her exceptionally long life: first as a visual artist, ...

NEW YORK - Dorothea Tanning, a leading Surrealist painter of the 1930s whose path had led her from the small town of Galesburg, Ill., to a whirlwind life in the international art world, died Tuesday ...

Dorothea Tanning's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 6,240,430 USD for paintings, and 206,452 USD for works on papers. In the past 12 months, their prints ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Dorothea Tanning: Arts and ...

The big, furry what’s-is in the Menil Collection’s small east wing gallery could be something to cuddle or to flee. It’s “Cousins,” a brown bear of a soft sculpture depicting two twisted, embracing ...

A young woman in a loose, light-colored garment that could be an oversized T-shirt or a casual nightgown presses a foot and hand up against a door, her gaze obscured by the outstretched arm, as her ...

I suppose it was inevitable that the notices of Dorothea Tanning’s death last week, at the age of a hundred and one, all ranked the fact that she was Max Ernst’s widow among her signal accomplishments ...

A show full of surprises reveals Dorothea Tanning as so much more than the last surrealist, while Tracey Emin delivers a monotone lament in 100 works A startling painting in this terrific survey of ...

Woman? All they knew for sure was that they desired her. Désir, a gigantic five-letter word. She had met German artist Max Ernst one day in 1942 when he came to her Manhattan apartment to look at some ...

Dorothea Tanning established a reputation in the 1940s for disturbingly vivid images which seemed to offer a despairing contemplation of woman’s biological destiny. In Birthday (1942), for example, ...