Dorothea Tanning

Born
1910, Galesburg, Illinois

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1934 Dorothea Tanning, New Orleans
1944 Dorothea Tanning, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, April
1945 Dorothea Tanning, Caresse Crosby Gallery, Washington, D.C., March 15-April 10
1948 Recent Painting by Dorothea Tanning, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, January
1950 Sept Périls Spectaux: Lithographies en Couleurs par Dorothea Tanning, Galerie Les Pas Perdus, Paris, May
1951 Dorothea Tanning, American Contemporary Gallery, Hollywood, California, April 4-23
1953 Dorothea Tanning, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York, January 14-31
1954 Dorothea Tanning:Peintures, Galerie Furstenburg, Paris, May 7-30
1955 Dorothea Tanning, Arthur Jeffress Gallery, London, February 22-March 19
1959 Dorothea Tanning, Galerie Edouard Loeb, Paris, May 26-June 13
1959 Dorothea Tanning, Galerie Mouradian & Vallotton, Paris, May 26-June 13
1959 Accueil: Dorothea Tanning, Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris, April
1961 Dorothea Tanning, Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York, April. (also in 1965)
1961 Dorothea Tanning, Galleria Galatea, Turin, October
1962 Dorothea Tanning: Peintures 1959-1962, Galerie Mouradian Vollotton, Paris, May 15-June 6
1963 Dorothea Tanning: Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen, 1957-1963, Galerie der Speigel, Colgne, June 14-July 30
1964 Dorothea Tanning: Bilder, Gouaches, Zeichnungen, 1957-1963, Amerika Haus, Berlin, February
1965 Dorothea Tanning, Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris, May 24-June 15
1966 Dorothea Tanning: Peintures Récentes et Petites Sculptures d'Or, Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris, May 24-June 30
1969 Dorothea Tanning, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Geneva, March 26-April 30
1971 Dorothea Tanning: Sculpture, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Milan, February 23-March 18
1973 En Chair et En Or, etchings, Galerie Editions Georges Visat, Paris, June
1974 Dorothea Tanning: Oeuvre, retrospective, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, May 28-July 8
1975 Dorothea Tanning, Galerie Bel'Art, Stockholm, November-December
1978 Dorothea Tanning: Drawings, Watercolours, and Collages, J.P.L. Fine Arts, London, February
1979 Dorothea Tanning: Ten Recent Paintings and A Biography, Gimple and Weitzenhoffer, New York, October-November
1980 Dorothea Tanning, Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 30-April 21
1983 Dorothea Tanning: Paintings. Stephen Mazoh Gallery, New York, September 27-October 29
1987 Dorothea Tanning, Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles, April 3-May 31
1988 11 Paintings: Dorothea Tanning, Kent Fine Art Inc. New York, May 18-June 18
1989 Dorothea Tanning: Between Lives, Runkel-Hue-Williams Ltd., London, September 15-October 13
1990 Dorothea Tanning: Messages, Nahan Contemporary, New York, March
1992 Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium! Print Retrospective, The New York Public Library, New York, May 9-July 18
1993 Dorothea Tanning: Works 1942-1992, Camden Arts Center, London, September 17-November 21
2000/1 Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond. Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 2000—January 2001
2005 Dorothea Tanning: Insomnias, Paintings from 1954-65, Kent Gallery, New York


Selected Group Exhibitions
1937 De Young Museum Annual, De Young Museum, San Francisco
1941 Directions in American Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
1943 31 Women, Art of This Century Gallery, New York
1944 Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States, Cincinnati Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art
1946 San Francisco Museum of Art Annual, San Francisco
1947 Surrealisme, Galerie Maeght, Paris
1948 The Temptation of St. Anthony, Knoeddler Gallery, New York
Howard Putzel Gallery, New York
1951 Surrealist and Abstract Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
1953 Six Artists: Gouaches, Acquarelles, Livres d'Art, Galerie René Drouin, Paris.
1954 Artists in Arizona, University of Arizona Art Museum, Tempe
1956 Exposition de Trois Peintre Americains: Max Ernst, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, Musee de Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France
1962 Surrealismus: Phantastiche Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
1964 Hanover Gallery, London
1972 The Surrealist Experience, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Les Peintres Belges et les Surrealistes, Musée d'Art et Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
1977 Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1977 Paris/New York, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1978 Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Arts Council of Great Britain at the Hayward Gallery, London
1981 Art Americaine, Centre National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1984 Surrealism in Chicago Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1984 Kafka, Centre National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1987 Assemblage, Kent Fine Art Inc., New York
1987 The Anatomy of Drawing: An Exhibition of Nudes, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
1988 Enduring Creativity, Whitney Museum Fairfield County, Stamford, CT
1988 Venice Biennale, Summer
1988 Modern Masters II, Runkel-Hue-Williams, Ltd., London
1988 Convulsive Beauty: The Impact of Surrealism on American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT and Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York
1989 25th Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Leo Castelli, New York
1990 Bijoux d'Artistes, Atelier Hugo, London, Paris
1991 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1993 Le Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York
1999 Surrealism: Two Private Eyes/The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2000 Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
2001-2 Surrealism: Desire Unbound, The Tate, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Theatre
1946 The Night Shadow (sets and costumes). Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, New York. Choreography by George Balanchine, music by Vittorio Rieti
1950 The Witch (sets and costumes). Sadlers Wells with New York City Ballet, Covent Garden, London. Choreography by John Cranko
1952 Bayou (sets and costumes). New York City Ballet, New York. Choreography by George Balanchine, music by Virgil Thomson
1953 Will o' the Wisp (sets and costumes). New York City Ballet, New York. Choreography by Ruthanna Boris
1961 Judith (costumes). Théatre de France, Paris. Play by Jean Giraudoux, directed by Jean Louis Barrault


Film
1944 Dreams That Money Can Buy (performer). A film by Hans Richter
1956 8 x 8 (performer). A film by Hans Richter
1959 Dorothea Tanning: Le Regard Ebloui (The Astonished Gaze). A film by Jean Desvilles, les Productions Tanit, Paris
1978 Insomnias, The Art of Dorothea Tanning, A film by Peter Schamoni, Argos Films, Paris and Munich. Grand Prize for Direction, Festival International du Film d'Art, Palmares, 1981