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, ...

Dorothea Tanning, the Surrealist artist who made it from the small town of Galesburg, Illinois, to the center of New York’s avant-garde art world, lived until she was 101, but she never got the major ...

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 ...

MADRID — In the 1960s, when the American painter Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) got sick of the smell of turpentine, she started working with fabric. She had just moved from Sedona, Arizona to Paris ...

The American artist Dorothea Tanning, who has died aged 101, was a talented painter whose reputation was confounded by her long marriage to the great surrealist Max Ernst. He figures prominently in ...

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 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, ...