Dorothea Tanning

Artist Details

• First Name Dorothea
• Maiden Name Tanning
• Surname Tanning
• Spouse’s Full Name Max Ernst artist met in 1942, married 1946
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date August 25, 1910
• Birth Place Galeburg, Illinois
• Ethnicity Swedish
• Residence(s) 1910-1930: Galesburg, Illinois
  
  1930-1936: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1936-circa 1946: New York, New York
  
  circa 1946-circa 1950: Sedona, Arizona
  
  circa 1950- circa 1970: Paris, France
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  New York, New York
• Studio Location(s) New York, New York Sedona, Arizona Paris, France
• Categories Fiber Artist, Muralist, Photographer, Printmaker
• Training 1928-1930: Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
  Chicago Academy of Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois (evening classes)
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  Academie Julian, Paris France
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 2000: Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [solo]
  
  February 17-May 22, 2005: Paris and the Surrealists, The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  
  Surreal Anatomies: Works on Paper by Hans Bellmer and Dorothea Tanning, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
  
  Surrealism USA: Between 1930 and 1950, National Academy, New York, New York
  
  Art of This Century Gallery, New York, New York
  
  Society of Independent Artists
  
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
• Collections Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
  
  Tate Modern, London, England
• Publications Slatkin’s History of Women Artists
• Memberships Society of Independent Artists
• Archive(s) Knox College Library, Galesburg, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) 1936-circa 1946: commercial artist
  
  circa 1946-?: graphic artist, set and costume designer
  
  Writer of poetry, novels, autobiography
• Biography influenced by Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Pierre Roy
  
  see essay on this website