02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #113

Man Ray, (1890–1976)

Dorothea Tanning, c. 1942

Gelatin silver print

 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (25 x 19.3 cm.)

Private collection

Dorothea Margaret Tanning, American painter and writer (born Aug. 25, 1910, Galesburg, Ill.—died Jan. 31, 2012, New York, N.Y.), was a prominent Surrealist, but her artistic career was overshadowed by that of her famous husband, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst, to whom she was married for 30 years (1946–76); her own dreamlike imagery, however, was considered more Gothic in nature than surreal. Tanning moved to New York City in 1936, where she established and made her living as a fashion illustrator. At a party in 1942, she met Ernst (then married to his third wife, art patron Peggy Guggenheim), and the two moved in together about a week after Ernst viewed her work and persuaded his wife to include Tanning’s self-portrait, Birthday (1942), in which she appears clothed but bare breasted and shoeless (Below). In 1944 Tanning was given her first solo show. After Tanning and Ernst married in 1946, the couple moved to Sedona, Ariz. 

Her paintings embodied not only the visible world but also the intangible that animated the life force. Tanning and Ernst moved to France during the communist witch hunts conducted by U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and there she began work in the late 1960s on soft fabric sculptures. After the death of Ernst in 1976, Tanning returned to New York City and launched a career as a novelist . Dorothea Margaret Tanning

Dorothea Tanning

Birthday, c. 1942

Oil on canvas

40 1/4 x 25 1/2 in.

Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself. More on Man Ray

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