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 ...

“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, ...

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, ...

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 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, pioneering Surrealist, in 1998. Photo: Peter Ross, Courtesy of The Dorothea Tanning Foundation Dorothea Tanning died today at 101, and pieces of history die with her. Artist, poet, ...

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.

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

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, ...