Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 77 1/2 × 117" (196.9 × 297.2 cm)
Credit Gift of Joan H. Tisch (by exchange)
Object number 708.2019
Department Painting & Sculpture

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Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning

American, 1910–2012 17 works online

In 1936 Dorothea Tanning visited The Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism , an exhibition of nearly 700 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and films that each presented a radical departure from day-to-day reality.

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