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Dorothea Tanning
(1910- )
American painter Dorothea Tanning, b. Galesburg, Ill., Aug. 25, 1910,
learned to paint, she claimed, by visiting art museums.
She attended Knox College in Galesburg, studied art in Chicago, and in
1935 moved to New York City, where she supported herself with advertising art
and painted in her spare time. A commercial artist in New York, she began
painting as a professional after meeting a group of French
surrealist
painters that included
Max Ernst,
whom she married in 1946. Tanning's
paintings have evolved from her early surrealist evocations of perverse
children's games and fantasies to experiments with different painting and,
later, sculptural approaches although her involvement with symbolic and
dream material has remained constant. Her
Hotel du Pavot, an installation in
cloth sculpture, is in the permanent collection of the Beaubourg Museum in
Paris.
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