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Dorothea Tanning: Insomia – a short film made in 1978 by the German director Peter Schamoni – offers the opportunity to hear the artist's observations about her life and work and to see her in her home and studio in Seillans, France. The film can be viewed here, courtesy of the Schamoni Film & Media Archive in Munich.
1942 Oil on canvas 40 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Purchased with funds contributed by C.K. Williams, II 1999-50-1
Tanning was the author of the memoir Birthday (1986), expanded and reissued as Between Lives: An Artist and Her World (2001), of which Donna Seaman observed in Booklist: “Tanning uses language like paint, limning scenes dreamy in hue yet acute in detail and metaphoric in their images.”. In 2004 Tanning published her first novel, Chasm: A ...
Dorothea Tanning. 4.08. 49 ratings3 reviews. The author, an artist herself, recounts her life with her husband, Max Ernst, the surrealist painter. Genres Art Memoir Art History Nonfiction. 185 pages, Paperback. First published December 12, 1986.
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Dorothea Tanning works at The Litho Shop, a splendid installation of lithography presses of friend Sam Francis. Dorothea Tanning publishes a short memoir, Birthday, at Lapis Press, San Francisco. Exhibition at Kent Fine Art, New York, of works on paper. Several regional exhibitions follow.
"Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond," Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000 Birthday, 1942 MORE INFO: Self-Portrait, 1944 MORE INFO: Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951 MORE ...
