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 ...

“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, ...

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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, ...

Doesn’t the Paint Say it All? — a rare retrospective of Dorothea Tanning’s mid-career paintings, on view at Kasmin Gallery — showcases the American artist’s abrupt break with the overtly figurative ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dorothea Tanning exemplifies so many of the values we champion at the Alliance, and we are honored to present this award in her name." "It is our privilege to partner with the Alliance in establishing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monstrous plants, creepy dogs with baby faces, adolescent girls, doors as a portal to the unknown. The mysterious world of the American painter Dorothea Tanning is on show at Tate Modern in London.