DOROTHEA TANNING (1910 – 2012)
It is my sad duty to announce that Dorothea Tanning has passed away. She died peacefully in her home in New York City on January 31. She was 101 years old.
Dorothea Tanning led a truly remarkable life, not because she lived so long but because she lived so fully. As a young woman, she pursued her dreams to become an artist, and now leaves behind a significant body of painting, sculpture, and works on paper created over the course of six decades. For 34 years, she shared a loving partnership with her husband, Max Ernst, first in the United States and later in France. After his death in 1976, she returned to New York and demonstrated that it is never to late to begin a new chapter in life. In her mid-seventies, she became more productive than ever in her studio, and in her mid-eighties launched a new and successful career as a writer and poet. She worked until her last days, publishing her second book of poems, Coming to That, in the fall of 2011.
This website aims to serve as an introduction and tribute to Dorothea Tanning’s life and work. It is an ongoing project of The Dorothea Tanning Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving the artist’s legacy.
Pamela S. Johnson
Director, The Dorothea Tanning Foundation
Obituaries, Eulogies, Remembrances...
e-flux, Art-Agenda, Feb. 17
artcritical, Adrian Dannat, Feb. 16
The Art History Newspaper (blog), Jon Lackman, Feb. 11
Journal of Surrealism and the Americas (online),
Victoria Carrutherrs, Feb. 9
The New Yorker (blog), Dan Chiasson, Feb. 7
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (blog), Devi Noor, Feb. 6
The Washington Post, obituary by Joy Press, Feb. 6
The Los Angeles Times, obituary by Joy Press, Feb. 5
The Guardian, Amanda Sebestyen, Feb. 5
Kansas City Star, obituary by Joy Press, Feb. 4
The Independent, obituary by Marcus Williamson, Feb. 4
Le Monde, obituary by Philippe Dagen, Feb. 3
Art in America (online), obituary by Stephanie Cash, Feb. 3
The Telegraph, obituary, Feb. 3
The Guardian, obituary by Alex Needham, Feb. 2
The Guardian, obituary by Christopher Masters, Feb. 2
Poetry Society of America, a poem "In Memoriam," Feb. 2
Publisher's Weekly (online), Craig Morgan Teicher, Feb. 2
Graywolf Press, Jeffrey Shotts, Feb. 1
New York Magazine (online), obituary by Jerry Saltz, Feb. 1
Le Figaro, obituary by Valérie Duponchelle, Feb. 1
New York Observer, obituary by Andrew Russeth, Feb. 1
The New York Times, obituary by Grace Glueck, Feb. 1
