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 “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 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, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Surrealism is an avant-garde art and literary movement that began in Paris in the ...

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 ...

aapg copy 39088020156360 is a gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. "Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) has for decades been known primarily as a Surrealist, but ...

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 ...

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, ...

Administered by The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, The Dorothea Tanning Portfolio Award will be incorporated into the Awards' pre-existing Gold Medal Portfolio Awards—the program's highest ...

SEDONA, Arizona — On the Visit Sedona blog you will find Dorothea Tanning’s oft repeated quote: “Women artists. There is no such thing — or person. It’s just as much a contradiction in terms as ‘man ...