Happy 100th Dorothea!
By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 25 August 2010
Dorothea Tanning in front of her painting Quiet-Willow Walk, 1998 (Photo: Steve Moss)
American artist and writer Dorothea Tanning, the wife of late German surrealist Max Ernst, celebrates her 100th birthday today, 25 August. The Illinois-born, New York-based centenarian held a variety of jobs before delving full-time into a career as an artist including operating a marionettes at the Buster Brown booth at the 1933 World Fair in Chicago. She met Ernst in 1942 and married him four years later in a double ceremony with artist Man Ray and model and ballet dancer Juliet Browner. A regular fixture in the art world, she has counted the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yves Tanguy, Jean Arp and Lee Miller as guests in her home. Renowned for not only for her paintings but also for her poetry and ballet set and costume designs, her work can found in the collections of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New york and the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, among others.
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